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| Trudeau raises 'serious concern' over jailed blogger in call with Saudi king | Trudeau raises 'serious concern' over jailed blogger in call with Saudi king |
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| Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, expressed his “serious concern” over the continued imprisonment of the Saudi blogger Raif Badawi to the kingdom’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz, his office said on Tuesday. | Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, expressed his “serious concern” over the continued imprisonment of the Saudi blogger Raif Badawi to the kingdom’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz, his office said on Tuesday. |
| The 34-year-old prisoner, who ran a blog that promoted free speech and women’s rights in Saudi Arabia, was arrested in 2012 and sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in jail for “insulting Islam” in a case that sparked an international outcry. | The 34-year-old prisoner, who ran a blog that promoted free speech and women’s rights in Saudi Arabia, was arrested in 2012 and sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in jail for “insulting Islam” in a case that sparked an international outcry. |
| Saudi blogger’s wife: I feel destroyed but I will not sit in a corner and cry | |
| His wife, Ensaf Haidar, has been granted asylum by Canada, where she is raising their three children, aged 14, 13 and 10, as a single mother. | His wife, Ensaf Haidar, has been granted asylum by Canada, where she is raising their three children, aged 14, 13 and 10, as a single mother. |
| According to a readout of Trudeau’s call with the Saudi king, the two “spoke about the importance of respecting human rights and freedom of speech, as well as democratic reforms in Saudi Arabia”. | According to a readout of Trudeau’s call with the Saudi king, the two “spoke about the importance of respecting human rights and freedom of speech, as well as democratic reforms in Saudi Arabia”. |
| Trudeau “also raised consular issues, and expressed his ongoing, serious concern about the imprisonment of human rights activist Raif Badawi”. | Trudeau “also raised consular issues, and expressed his ongoing, serious concern about the imprisonment of human rights activist Raif Badawi”. |
| In January, Haidar had held out fresh hopes that her husband might receive a royal pardon, after the European lawmaker Josef Weidenholzer returned from meetings with human rights groups in Riyadh a few months earlier. | In January, Haidar had held out fresh hopes that her husband might receive a royal pardon, after the European lawmaker Josef Weidenholzer returned from meetings with human rights groups in Riyadh a few months earlier. |
| But that did not materialize. | But that did not materialize. |
| Badawi received the first 50 lashes of his 1,000-lash sentence in January 2015 but there have been no more, following criticism from the European Union, US, Sweden, Canada, the UN and others. | Badawi received the first 50 lashes of his 1,000-lash sentence in January 2015 but there have been no more, following criticism from the European Union, US, Sweden, Canada, the UN and others. |
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