Raif Badawi: Saudi blogger freed after decade in prison
Saudi blogger Raif Badawi - jailed and sentenced to 1, lashes for "insulting Islam online" - has been freed, his wife says.
"Raif called me. He is free," Ensaf Haidar told AFP news agency from Canada, where she fled with the couple's three children.
The blogger's first 50 lashes caused a global outcry and he became an emblem of rights abuses in the country.
There has been no official Saudi comment on his release.
Mr Badawi's son Terad also tweeted: "My father is free."
His sentence ended on 1 March. However, he is subject to a year-travel ban and it is unclear whether he will face other restrictions.
The NGO Reporters Without Borders said it would work to ensure he can join his family in Canada despite the ban.
Mr Badawi, now 38, established the Liberal Saudi Network, a forum that sought to encourage debate on religious and political matters in Saudi Arabia, in
In , Mr Badawi was arrested in the city of Jeddah and charged with "insulting Islam through electronic channels" and "going beyond the realm of obedience".
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Raif Badawi, The Voice of Freedom: My Husband, Our Story
Raif Badawi: The Voice of Freedom, Ensaf Haidar’s moving love letter to her activist husband, brings this point home. Badawi, an activist and founder of the website Free Saudi Liberals, is currently imprisoned in Saudi Arabia on several charges, including insulting Islam and apostasy, his sentence 10 years in prison, a fine and 1, lashes, the first 50 of which have been administered already.
The book, which Haidar wrote with Andrea C. Hoffman, could be read as a straightforward love story. Certainly the strength of the Badawis’ love for each other is made clear from the moment the couple ‘met’, via a misdialled phone call made to a mobile that Haidar wasn’t even meant to have, through their illicit courtship in a country in which ‘too much freedom is seen as a risk’, their subsequent marriage, which took place despite family opposition, to Badawi’s persecution and imprisonment and Haidar’s fight, while in
RAIF BADAWI
Chronologie des événements
Janvier : naissance de Raif Badawi.
13 août : création du site « Le Réseau libéral saoudien », dans lequel il réclame une libéralisation de la pensée et de la société en Arabie saoudite.
: Raif est arrêté et interrogé pour une première fois.
Mars : Raif ferme son site sous les pressions des autorités et de la police religieuse.
Mai : 14 chefs d’accusations sont déposées contre Raif dont celle d’avoir créé un site internet qui insulte l’islam.
Printemps-été : libéré sous caution, Raif s’exile volontairement.
Fin : Raif rentre en Arabie saoudite. Les autorités semblent avoir laissé tomber les accusations.
Décembre : création du site « Libérez les libéraux saoudiens ».
Automne : Raif fait l’objet d’une fatwa qui est signée par experts religieux.
Fin : de nouvelles accusations sont déposées contre Raif.
17 juin : Raif est arrêté et envoyé en détention préventive.
29 juillet : Raif est condamné à 7 ans de prison et à coups de fouet.
Automne : la cause de Raif est portée en appel.
7 mai : la nouvelle peine de Raif est connue : 10 ans de prison, coups de fouet, $ d’amende
Lashes: Because I Say What I Think
A Male Escort for Every Female Scholar
I had heard that under Islamic law, women are forbidden to leave their house without a man to escort them but did not know that this extended to Saudi female scholars in the United Kingdom.
How dare he point out the foolishness of this demand.
Mixed or Divided
He talks about stories that his grandmother told him about how women used to work alongside men on the farms. For the last thirty years that is not allowed, except for in hospitals and in large malls.
I guess if it's a matter of saving someone's life or selling them a food processor, then women are allowed to work.
The Traveler's Marriage and the Borrowed Ram
"If a woman has been divorced from her husband twice and remarries him each time, and if he then divorces her a third time, under Islamic law he is not allowed to marry her again. That is haram, that is to s
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