In extreme situations, freedom of speech can result in death; Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh is only the most recent example of this horrendous outcome. Over the past two years, Fayadh has been detained by the Saudi Arabian authorities several times. He was first arrested in August 2013 by the Saudi
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On November 17th, 2015, a Saudi Arabian court sentenced Ashraf Fayadh to death on accounts of apostasy (abandoning the Muslim faith). Before his sentence, Fayadh had spent the last two years being detained and released from prison on several accounts. First he was arrested in August 2013, with the accusation