Raif Badawi

2022 - 3 - 11

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Saudi Arabia: 10-year travel ban for freed blogger Raif Badawi (Aljazeera.com)

Badawi, a prominent human rights activist who spent 10 years in jail, was charged with 'insulting Islam'.

The court ruling holds up and is final.” An interior ministry official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told the AFP news agency on Saturday: “The sentence handed down to Raif was 10 years in prison followed by a travel ban for the same length of time. Saudi Arabia has confirmed a 10-year travel ban for freed blogger and activist Raif Badawi, who has become a symbol of freedom of expression around the world.

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Arabie: le militant libéré Raif Badawi interdit de quitter le pays ... (Le Soleil)

L'Arabie saoudite a confirmé samedi l'interdiction de quitter le territoire saoudien pendant les dix prochaines années pour le blogueur et militant des ...

Le blogueur est lauréat du prix RSF 2014 dans la catégorie net-citoyen. Il a aussi été choisi en 2015 par les chefs de file des groupes politiques du Parlement européen comme lauréat du Prix Sakharov pour la liberté d’expression. En 2015 et 2016, il figurait parmi les nominés pour le prix Nobel de la Paix. L’ancien lauréat du prix Reporters sans frontières pour la liberté de la presse, âgé de 38 ans, avait été arrêté en 2012 puis condamné fin 2014 à dix ans de prison et à 50 coups de fouet par semaine pendant vingt semaines pour avoir plaidé notamment pour la fin de l’influence de la religion sur la vie publique.

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Quebec family of blogger Raif Badawi overjoyed by news he's been ... (CBC.ca)

The Quebec family of Raif Badawi tweeted Friday the Saudi blogger has been released from Saudi prison, 10 years after being jailed for criticizing religious ...

- A previous version of this story stated that the motion in favour of granting Raif Badawi citizenship was introduced in June 2021. "Now is the time to push," she said. That motion was adopted unanimously by the Senate last June. Even he doesn't know what to say," she said. "She has done so many things! She received a call this morning from Badawi, as he was signing his release papers.

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Jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi freed, but hurdles remain to join ... (Globalnews.ca)

The Quebec-based wife of Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, who has been imprisoned for the past decade, says he has been freed from a Saudi jail.

His only wish is to reunite with his family over 10,000 kilometres away so that he may live out his days as a devoted husband and father.” She has been fighting this fight for 10 years,” Brunelle-Duceppe said in a phone interview. “It is now up to the Canadian government to grant him safe passage or a travel document so that he can come and join his family here in Quebec.” “I had dreamed of this day for a long time,” she said, adding that she and her children were overcome by the news. He received 50 lashes in January 2015 during a public flogging, but he is not believed to have been whipped since. Ensaf Haidar, who lives with the couple’s three children in Sherbrooke, Que., said she was relieved and happy her husband was free.

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Raif Badawi a été libéré (La Tribune)

Après 10 ans de prison pour «insulte à l'islam», le blogueur saoudien et militant des droits humains Raif Badawi a été libéré.

C’est un poids de moins sur les épaules», a également confié à La Tribune l’une de ses filles, Najwa Badawi, 18 ans. Un grand merci à toutes et tous pour votre soutien sans relâche !— Amnistie internationale Canada (@AmnistieCA) pic.twitter.com/P1EKHoncQ7 March 11, 2022 «Je suis juste contente, juste contente.

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Saudi blogger Raif Badawi freed from prison after a decade, wife says (CTV Montreal)

Blogger and activist Raif Badawi's family and friends were all smiles, tears and emotion on Friday in Sherbrooke, Que. as they celebrated his release after ...

1 hr ago 1 hr ago 1 hr ago 1 hr ago 1 hr ago 1 hr ago 1 hr ago 1 hr ago Ontario said it would join Alberta in temporarily slashing gas and fuel taxes in an effort to curb runaway gas prices. "We're talking about a kind of prison without walls where he's deprived of travel for the next 10 years," Cotler said at the time. His supporters and family had been calling for Badawi's release since his sentence expired on Feb. 28. It's a relief.

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Raïf Badawi libéré après 10 ans d'emprisonnement (Le Devoir)

Le blogueur saoudien Raïf Badawi a été libéré après 10 ans d'emprisonnement. Il l'a lui-même annoncé vendredi matin par téléphone à sa femme, Ensaf Haidar, ...

« Il faudrait que les Saoudiens acceptent de le laisser partir », confirme Évelyne Abitbol, cofondatrice de la fondation Raïf Badawi pour la liberté. « Maintenant, il nous reste à travailler beaucoup pour une libération complète. » Celle qui est aussi responsable de la coordination entre les avocats qui défendent M. Badawi et les membres de sa famille continue d’espérer que ses conditions de libération puissent être assouplies. Entre-temps, Raïf Badawi retrouve une certaine liberté de mouvement à l’intérieur de l’Arabie saoudite. Pour les résidents de Sherbrooke, cette libération a une résonance particulière. « Ça donne de l’espoir, en cette période de vie où on en a grand besoin », a dit la mairesse, Évelyne Beaudin. « Ensaf, c’est une Sherbrookoise, ses enfants aussi, et Raïf est un Sherbrookois pour nous. Même sorti de prison, le blogueur n’en a pas fini pour autant avec la justice saoudienne. Raïf Badawi se trouve toujours en Arabie saoudite, où il a été emprisonné en 2012 et condamné à purger 10 ans de prison.

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Raïf Badawi interdit de quitter l'Arabie saoudite pendant 10 ans (La Presse)

L'Arabie saoudite a confirmé samedi l'interdiction de quitter le territoire saoudien pendant les 10 prochaines années pour le blogueur et militant des ...

Le blogueur est lauréat du prix RSF 2014 dans la catégorie net-citoyen. Il a aussi été choisi en 2015 par les chefs de file des groupes politiques du Parlement européen comme lauréat du Prix Sakharov pour la liberté d’expression. En 2015 et 2016, il figurait parmi les sélectionnés pour le prix Nobel de la Paix. La première séance de flagellation sur une place publique en Arabie saoudite en 2015 avait choqué le monde pour son caractère « médiéval », selon l’expression d’une ministre suédoise à l’époque. Il n’a plus été fouetté par la suite.

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Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, imprisoned for 'insulting Islam', freed ... (The Guardian)

It's unclear if Saudi authorities paced restriction s on his release but human rights campaigners promise to fight them.

“Thousands of you have mobilized alongside us in the defense of Raif Badawi for 10 years. A Sunni Muslim like most Saudis, Raif Badawi studied economics and ran an institute for learning English and computer techniques, according to his wife. She worked so hard to free her husband that emotions overwhelmed her,” Lelievre said on Friday after speaking with Badawi’s wife. “I jumped when I found out. The winner of the Reporters Without Borders prize for press freedom, who is now 38 years old, was arrested and detained in Saudi Arabia in 2012 on charges of “insulting Islam”, and at the end of 2014 was sentenced to 10 years in prison as well as 50 lashes a week for 20 weeks. His first flogging in Jeddah square in Saudi Arabia in 2015 shocked the world, and was described by the United Nations as “cruel and inhuman”. After the outcry, he was not lashed again.

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Raif Badawi: Saudi blogger freed after decade in prison (BBC News)

He was arrested in 2012 and later jailed and sentenced to 1000 lashes for "insulting Islam online".

In 2014, an appeals court upheld the conviction and increased the punishment to 10 years in prison and 1,000 public lashes. But that was not pursued by prosecutors, and in 2013 he was sentenced to seven years in prison and 600 lashes by a criminal court on the initial charges. After the first round of the 1,000 lashes to which he had been sentenced, Badawi was not subjected to such treatment again but he remained in jail.

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