Palestinian
poet and artist Ashraf Fayadh has been sentenced to death. This case started
when the religious police of Palestine, arrested Fayadh in 2013 on account of a
complaint from a Saudi citizen that accused him of obscene comments against
God, against the Prophet Muhammad and against the Saudi Estate and for
propagate atheism in public places.
He was
newly arrested in 2014, when prosecutors accused him of several charges of
blasphemy for his book of love poems Within
Instruction published ten years ago. Prosecutors also accuse him
of mocking God and the prophets of Coran. He was sentenced to four years
in prison and 800 lashes and, in this case, the fiscal refuse the death
penalty by repentance of the accused poet. But this last November, another
judge reviewed the case and now, he has been sentenced to death as he considered
that the repentance was not enough.
Important
cultural figures from different countries have joined to protest against this
death sentence, misfortune that unfortunately adds the death of the father of
the writer after suffering a heart attack last week when he heard the
news.
Amongst
those who has supported Fayadh, now refugee in Saudi Arabia, we can
find Chris Decon, the British
poet Carol Ann Duffy, the British writer David Hare, the Egyptian
novelist Ahdaf Soueif, the Sirius poet Adonis, the Irish writer Paul
Muldoon, the historian of the United Kingdom Simon Schama and many more in
addition to a dozen of organizations and associations from the United Kingdom,
the United States and from Africa, who
have signed a statement defending the freedom of the poet and the freedom of
expression.
I choose this
new because it show us that, nowadays, in the 21st century, not everybody in
everywhere has the rights that should have. At least in our country or in the
Europe Union, is unthinkable that someone could be arrested for give his
opinion and even less, that this person could be sentenced to death! This shows
us that we are not as advanced as we thought (although a country as the
United Sates, one of the "most moderns" the death penalty still
exists). For this, I agree with those intellectuals who has risen against this
because is an injustice in capital letters.
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