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This came after the Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland, expressed concern over the arrest of Samar Badawi, a human rights activist in Saudi Arabia and sister of Raif Badawi, and demanded the release of both Samar and Raif. [79] In July 2019, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence urged Saudi Arabia to free Badawi. [80]
Canada had called for the immediate release of Saudi activist Raif Badawi and his sister Samar Badawi on 5 August 2018 after they were arrested by Saudi authorities on varying charges. In response, the Canadian government was accused of interfering in Saudi Arabia's internal affairs; the Canadian ambassador in Riyadh was declared persona non ...
11 March – Saudi Arabian blogger Raif Badawi is released after spending a decade in prison. [8] 12 March – Saudi Arabia executes 81 people, making it the largest execution in Saudi Arabian history, surpassing a January 1980 mass execution of 63 militants who were convicted of attempting to seize the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca.
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One such case is peaceful blogger Raif Badawi, who is serving a 10-year sentence for a series of blog posts calling for freedom of religion or belief in the kingdom.
On 17 December 2012, blogger Raif Badawi was charged with apostasy, which carries the death penalty. Badawi is the editor and of co-founder of Free Saudi Liberals, a website for religious discussion. [68] [69] The organization Human Rights Watch has called for charges against him to be dropped. [70]
In a press release 12 January 2016, Amnesty International announced [20] that Samar Badawi had been arrested and taken with her 2-year-old daughter Joud to a police station in Jeddah where she was interrogated. Four hours later, Badawi was transferred to Dhahban Central Prison, the same prison where her brother, Saudi dissident Raif Badawi is ...
Badawi is to appear in court on Wednesday, according to Amnesty International. Both her brother, Raif Badawi , publisher of the "Free Saudi Liberals" blog, and former husband, Waleed Sami Abulkhair , are currently imprisoned.