After ten years spent in prison, free thinker still can not find his family, exiled in Canada.
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Since its exile in Canada with their three children, ENSAF Haidar exulted, Friday, March 11, learning the liberation of his husband, the blogger and free thinker Raif Badawi: he was imprisoned in Saudi Arabia since 2012. multiplying Gatherings and spokenings, ENSAF Haidar had maintained without releasing attention to the confinement of its husband, 38 years old. His imprisonment had been regularly denounced as arbitrary by human rights organizations. But the reunion be announced as a new battle to deliver for its relatives and organizations, unless a royal “grace”: Raif Badawi is under a prohibition of exit of the territory. His liberation is not a gesture of Mansuquuel: According to Amnesty International, Saudi had finished serving his prison sentence on the 1
Solidarity wave International
The incarceration of the father for “insults to Islam” had raised a wave of international solidarity, particularly because of his conviction with a thousand whipping, in more than ten years in prison. Because of this mobilization, Flagellation sessions had been interrupted after the first fifty lashes. International distinctions had been given to Raif Badawi, whose Sakharov Prize awarded by the European Parliament in 2015. Its name was those that Western diplomats murmured in the ear of the Saudi authorities by advocating for a liberation, failing to criticize openly the kingdom for the repression of protests.
Raif Badawi had triggered the Kingdom IRE for his mockery of the religious police and the liberal views he expressed on an online forum. His sister, Samar Badawi, another strong head, which has been imprisoned several years too, is also under a prohibition of traveling. A measure that allows the Saudi Crown to make sure the Duo Badawi will not play exile party disorder.