Saudi Arabia: “It’s high time to free Raif Badawi”

By alexandraek

NewsOn the nine-year anniversary of blogger Raif Badawi’s imprisonment, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges the Saudi authorities to release him without further delay and to lift the ban on leaving Saudi Arabia to which he was also sentenced. Badawi has completed nine of the 10 years in prison he was sentenced to for “insulting Islam.” Nine years in prison and 50 lashes is the high price that Badawi has already paid for creating Free Saudi Liberals, an online forum shut down by the authorities that was intended to open up debate

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