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Saudi Arabian blogger Raif Badawi
Raif Badawi (born 13 January 1984, name also transcribed as Raef Badawi) is a Saudi Arabian writer and activist and the creator of the website Free Saudi Liberals.
He was arrested in 2012 on a charge of insulting Islam through electronic channels and brought to court on several charges including apostasy. He was convicted of several charges and sentenced to seven years in prison and 600 lashes in 2013, then resentenced to 1,000 lashes and ten years in prison plus a fine in 2014. The lashes were to be carried out over 20 weeks. The first 50 were administered on January 9, 2015. The second set has been postponed more than twelve times. The reason for the most recent postponement is unknown, but in previous weeks the lashes have been delayed due to Badawi's poor health. Badawi is known to have hypertension and his health has worsened since the flogging began. His wife, Ensaf Haidar, has asserted that Raif will not be able to survive it.
In June 2015, Saudi Arabia's Supreme Court upheld the sentence of 1,000 lashes and ten years in prison.
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The Australian (blog)
January 12, 2018
The wife of jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi is allowing herself to dream: might the modernising new crown prince in her ultra-conservative homeland be about to free her husband? Ensaf Haidar, mother to the couple's three children and wife of 16 years, heard from a delegation of European MPs whoÃÂ ...
Amnesty International
January 9, 2018
Precies drie jaar geleden kreeg de Saudische blogger Raif Badawi vijftig stokslagen. Dit gebeurde nadat hij tot tien jaar cel en duizend stokslagen werd veroordeeld. Hij zou nog negentien keer vijftig stokslagen krijgen. Honderdduizenden mensen wereldwijd kwamen in actie voor zijn vrijlating en die vanÃÂ ...
Amnesty International USA
January 9, 2018
Amnesty International launches a campaign today to mark the three year anniversary of the public flogging of Saudi Arabian blogger Raif Badawi. He received the first 50 out of 1000 lashes on 9 January 2015 for setting up a website focused on social and political debate. In the wake of his flogging, whichÃÂ ...
Amnesty International UK
January 8, 2018
English PEN, along with Amnesty International and Reporters Without Borders, will stage a lunchtime vigil tomorrow (1-2pm) at the Saudi Arabia Embassy in London for the jailed Saudi Arabian blogger Raif Badawi, to mark three years since he was given 50 lashes. Mr Badawi, a 34-year-old father-of-threeÃÂ ...
New York Times
January 4, 2018
My husband, Raif Badawi, a blogger and activist, was a harsh critic of Saudi Arabia's clerical establishment. He called for the elimination of the male guardianship system and insisted in his writings on restricting the powers of the religious establishment. In 2007, he acted as the spokesman for Salman alÃÂ ...
Montreal Gazette
December 27, 2017
June 20: As Saudi dissident Raif Badawi marks five years in prison, his cause deserves more support. Boris / Montreal Gazette. July 26: Citizens of a small Quebec town rejected a Muslim cemetery, but worms don't discriminate. Sept. 12: Rohingya refugees flee Myanmar; Americans flee Hurricane Irma.
CBC.ca
December 22, 2017
The wife of jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi said she's outraged by a suggestion from the Canadian government to ask for her father-in-law's help in hopes of securing the release of her husband. Ensaf Haidar, who lives in Quebec, said MP and parliamentary secretary for foreign affairs Omar AlghabraÃÂ ...
CBC.ca
December 7, 2017
The wife of jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi says she's hopeful her husband could soon be free. Ensaf Haidar, who lives in Quebec, told a news conference in Ottawa Thursday she got word from a European Parliament delegation that Badawi was on "a list of people who would be forgiven by the kingÃÂ ...
Metro
September 1, 2017
Raif Badawi, 33, was sentenced to ten years in prison and corporal punishment in 2014 and his first 50 lashes were filmed in 2015. (Picture: YouTube/Abdullah Hussein). This is the shocking moment a Saudi Arabian blogger sentenced to 1,000 lashes for 'insulting Islam' was publicly flogged in front ofÃÂ ...
The Guardian
June 18, 2017
It was the fifth anniversary yesterday of the arrest of the Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, whose supposed crime was to argue for secularism, democracy and human rights. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes – a punishment that amounts to death by torture – although only 50 lashes wereÃÂ ...
Amnesty International
June 16, 2017
“Raif Badawi has already served half of his prison term, but he shouldn't be locked up in the first place. Saudi Arabian authorities must ensure his immediate and unconditional release, as well as the release of all prisoners of conscience detained solely for exercising their right to freedom of expression.
The Week UK
May 17, 2017
Ensaf Haidar holds a picture of her husband Raif Badawi at the European Parliament. Saudi blogger Raif Badawi's wife called for him to be released during a meeting in London today, three years after he was sentenced to 1000 lashes for insulting Islam. See related. Raif Badawi: Saudi blogger 'to beÃÂ ...
MinnPost (blog)
November 27, 2017
In 2015, a young Saudi blogger named Raif Badawi was publicly flogged and then sentenced to 10 years in prison (he's still locked up) for ...
Toronto Sun
November 10, 2017
Not only women suffer. Raif Badawi still languishes in prison from a blasphemy conviction and others have stood trial for “offences” that in the ...
Newsweek
June 26, 2017
Raif Badawi's wife Ensaf Ensaf Haidar holds a picture of her husband, detained Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, after accepting the European ...
The Guardian
June 18, 2017
It was the fifth anniversary yesterday of the arrest of the Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, whose supposed crime was to argue for secularism, ...
Amnesty International
June 16, 2017
“Raif Badawi has already served half of his prison term, but he shouldn't be locked up in the first place. Saudi Arabian authorities must ensure ...
The Week UK
May 17, 2017
Saudi blogger Raif Badawi's wife called for him to be released during a meeting in London today, three years after he was sentenced to 1000Â ...
Carbonated.tv (blog)
September 2, 2017
Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, 33, a writer and secular activist, was arrested on a charge of "insulting Islam through electronic channels" in 2012.
Metro
September 1, 2017
Raif Badawi, 33, was sentenced to ten years in prison and corporal punishment in 2014 and his first 50 lashes were filmed in 2015. (Picture:ÃÂ ...
Newsweek
June 26, 2017
The wife of Saudi writer and blogger Raif Badawi, Haider, has called on the newly appointed Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman toÃÂ ...
The Ferret (registration)
June 22, 2017
The condition of imprisoned Saudi blogger Raif Badawi is worsening both physically and mentally, according to his wife who visited Scotland toÃÂ ...
The Guardian
June 18, 2017
It was the fifth anniversary yesterday of the arrest of the Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, whose supposed crime was to argue for secularism,ÃÂ ...
Amnesty International
June 16, 2017
“Raif Badawi has already served half of his prison term, but he shouldn't be locked up in the first place. Saudi Arabian authorities must ensureÃÂ ...
The Week UK
May 17, 2017
Saudi blogger Raif Badawi's wife called for him to be released during a meeting in London today, three years after he was sentenced to 1000ÃÂ ...
The Independent
October 21, 2016
Saudi blogger Raif Badawi is facing a new round of lashes, ... the first 50 lashes Raif Badawi received in a public place on January 9 2015.
The Guardian
October 18, 2016
Ensaf Haidar holds a picture of her husband, jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, whichÃÂ ...
Gariwo, la foresta dei Giusti
February 23, 2017
... alberi al Giardino dei Giusti di Milano a a Lassana Bathily e Hamadi ben Abdesslem, due musulmani che hanno avuto il coraggio di salvare ebrei e cristiani dalla furia omicida dei terroristi, a Raif Badawi, il blogger saudita simbolo della lotta per ...
Reason (blog)
February 23, 2017
However, the fates Asia Bibi on death row for blasphemy in Pakistan, Raif Badawi serving 10 years for insulting Islam in Saudia Arabia, and Ayatollah Kazemeini Boroujerdi serving a lengthy prison sentence in Iran for "waging war against God," show thatÃÂ ...
Deutsche Welle
February 22, 2017
Speaking on "Conflict Zone", Prince al-Faisal said he was open to Sebastian's suggestion that the UN Committee against Torture should be able visit the jail holding the blogger and dissident Raif Badawi. Badawi is mid-way through a ten year jail term ...
Ekklesia
February 21, 2017
... based solely on their peaceful activism include Mohammed al-Qahtani, Abdullah al-Hamid, Fadhil al-Manasif, Sulaiman al-Rashoodi, Abdulkareem al-Khodr, Fowzan al-Harbi, Raif Badawi, Saleh al-Ashwan, Abdulrahman al-Hamid, Zuhair Kutbi, Alaa Brinji,ÃÂ ...
Huffington Post Canada
February 21, 2017
Why are these voices conspicuously absent when it comes to signing petitions to free Muslim human rights activists like Raif Badawi and Waleed Abulkhair? Why do they not join Muslim individuals when they protest outside Saudi embassies against humanÃÂ ...
CBC.ca
February 20, 2017
We have to meet in the middle of the bridge," said Abitbol, who is the co-founder the Raif Badawi Foundation for Freedom.
Eurasia Review
February 19, 2017
Saudi blogger and co-founder of the "Liberal Saudi Network" Raif Badawi was sentenced in 2014 to 10 years in prison, 1,000 lashes and a 10-year travel ban for "disobeying and breaking allegiance with the sovereign," "lack of respect for the authorities ...
OMCT World Organisation Against Torture
February 17, 2017
Furthermore, the Observatory condemns the ongoing arbitrary detention of Ms. Badawi's ex-husband, Mr. Waleed Abu al-Khair, and brother, Mr. Raif Badawi, which only aims at punishing them for their legitimate and peaceful human rights activities, and ...
Gatestone Institute
February 15, 2017
Raif Badawi, a Saudi blogger sentenced for such thoughts to 1000 lashes -- in contravention of international law -- followed by ten years in jail and a fine of approximately $260,000.
Newsweek Pakistan
February 15, 2017
Saudi Arabian authorities on Wednesday questioned the sister of jailed blogger Raif Badawi over her activism, the second time in 12 months, she said on Twitter.
Malay Mail Online
February 9, 2017
When the allegedly atheist Raif Badawi was jailed and sentenced to whipping, he received tremendous support from atheists all over the world, thanks to social media.
The Independent
February 7, 2017
raid-badawi-berlin.jpg Demonstrators in Berlin protest outside Germany's Saudi Arabian embassy on January 8 2016 against the detention of Saudi blogger Raif Badawi and human rights activist and lawyer Waleed Abu Alkhair. Both men remain in prisonÃÂ ...
The Local Norway
February 2, 2017
Former French president Jacques Chirac is also reportedly in the running this year, as are Syria's White Helmets volunteer rescue workers; the jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi; and Edward Snowden, who revealed the scope of America's NSA electronicÃÂ ...
International Business Times
February 1, 2017
Other disclosed nominees include former French President Jacque Chirac, imprisoned Saudi Arabian activist Raif Badawi and NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Huffington Post UK
January 29, 2017
Others, like the one calling for Saudi Arabia to free blogger Raif Badawi, are for battles not yet won. Tatchell has bean beaten up by Russian neo-Nazis and Robert Mugabe's bodyguards as he tried to make a citizen's arrest.
EU Reporter
January 29, 2017
In Saudi Arabia, the family of the Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, winner of the 2015 EP Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, has no news about his health.
OneNewsNow
January 23, 2017
The recent imprisonment of atheist blogger, Raif Badawi, was not mentioned, or how Saudi Arabian law - modeled after Sharia law - called for him to receive 1,000 lashes in addition to his jail time as punishment for allegations made against him that heÃÂ ...
Christian Post
January 19, 2017
Saudi Arabia made international headlines when it jailed atheist blogger Raif Badawi and sentenced him to receive 1,000 lashes because of accusations that he insulted Islam.
CTV News
January 17, 2017
Before the session, Trudeau met with Ensaf Haidar, wife of Raif Badawi, a blogger who has been imprisoned in Saudi Arabia for the past four years for criticizing Islam.
Toronto Sun
January 12, 2017
In Saudi Arabia Raif Badawi, the blogger who is accused of "insulting Islam", is still in prison with no signs of release despite the effort of international human rights agencies.
International Business Times, Singapore Edition
January 11, 2017
... jailed, intimidated into silence or forced into exile - highlighting the authorities' zero tolerance approach to freedom of expression," the Amnesty statement said.
Amnesty International Vlaanderen
January 6, 2017
Op maandag 9 januari zal het twee jaar geleden zijn dat Raif Badawi de eerste reeks stokslagen kreeg. Hij is een Saoedische blogger en gewetensgevangene, maar ook mensenrechtenverdediger. Hij zit vast omdat hij zijn recht op vrije meningsuiting,ÃÂ ...
Altoona Mirror
January 5, 2017
Her co-founder of the online forum Free Saudi Liberals Network, blogger Raif Badawi, is serving a 10-year prison sentence and was publicly lashed 50 times.
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