article_snippet: Raif Badawi Raif Badawi hit headlines earlier this year when Raif Badawi was handed the sentence for supposedly insulting Islam.
article_snippet: Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, who was sentenced to 1,000 lashes for 'insulting Islam', could now face the death penalty .
article_snippet: Yesterday Ensaf Haidar, wife of the father-of-three, said her country’s criminal courts want Raif Badawi to undergo a retrial for apostasy.
article_snippet: If found guilty Raif Badawi could face the death penalty.
article_snippet: It comes nearly two years after a judge threw out the charge of apostasy against the 31-year-old blogger in 2013 after Raif Badawi assured the court that Raif Badawi was a Muslim.
article_snippet: Ensaf Haidar (pictured), Raif Badawi wife, said her country’s criminal courts wanted to re-try Raif Badawi for apostasy - which is punishable by the death penalty .
article_snippet: Last night Raif Badawi family explained that the penal court where Raif Badawi faces a retrial now has juristiction over major cases punishable by the death penalty.
article_snippet: Due to a new regulation issued by the Supreme Judicial Council on 19.09.2014, the penal court where he faces a retrial has now jurisdiction over major cases, which are punishable by the death penalty, amputation and stoning.
article_snippet: Mr Badawi’s family have reasons to believe without any doubts that the same judge has again asked the Head of the penal court where he faces a retrial to charge Raif with ‘Apostasy’.
highlights_snippet: Raif Badawi was sentenced to 1,000 lashes for 'insulting Islam'
  
highlights_snippet: But the blogger's wife says Saudi courts want Raif Badawi to undergo a retrial .
  
highlights_snippet: If Raif Badawi is found guilty of apostasy, Raif Badawi could face the death penalty .
  