article_snippet: Raif Badawi Raif Badawi has spoken for the first time since being jailed and sentenced to 1,000 lashes to say it was 'miraculous' that Raif Badawi had survived the first 50.
article_snippet: Raif Badawi was arrested in 2012 for offences including insulting Islam, cyber crime and disobeying Raif Badawi father (a crime in Saudi Arabia).
article_snippet: Raif Badawi punishment also meant Raif Badawi would be flogged 50 times every Friday for 20 weeks - but after the first beating in January this year, these have been postponed each week on medical grounds.
article_snippet: Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, who was sentenced to 1,000 lashes for 'insulting Islam', has spoken for the first time from jail about Raif Badawi first flogging in January .
article_snippet: Raif Badawi conviction sparked an international outcry and German weekly Der Spiegel reported Raif Badawi's first remarks since being given the sentence today.
article_snippet: Raif Badawi recalled how Raif Badawi received the first round of lashes in Jeddah on January while surrounded by a cheering crowd that chanted 'Allahu akbar'
article_snippet: In a letter which the magazine said was Raif Badawi first since being jailed, Raif Badawi said: 'All this cruel suffering happened to Raif Badawi only because I expressed my opinion.'
article_snippet: Raif Badawi wife Ensaf Haidar said His wife Ensaf Haidar husband is in 'a poor condition', adding her husband had suffered from high blood pressure and was mentally very stressed.
article_snippet: Raif Badawi said a cheering crowd chanted 'Allahu akbar' during Raif Badawi first flogging session.
article_snippet: Raif Badawi's floggings were paused after doctors ruled Badawi's floggings scars had not healed sufficiently after Badawi's floggings first beating for Badawi's floggings to face another round, but Saudi Arabia has so far failed to come up with a long term solution.
article_snippet: But earlier this month, it was revealed that Badawi's floggings may now face the death penalty after Badawi's floggings wife revealed the country's criminal courts want Badawi's floggings to face a retrial for apostasy.
highlights_snippet: Raif Badawi has spoken for first time since being jailed for 'insulting Islam'
  Raif Badawi
highlights_snippet: recalled how cheering crowds chanted around Raif Badawi during first flogging .
  
highlights_snippet: Raif Badawi sentence, including weekly beatings, sparked an international outcry .