Alishba Zarmeen, a friend of Raif Badawi
CTV – News Channel – Canada – VIDEO – Ahlishba Zarmeen, a friend of jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, reacts to the award he received and how she hopes it will impact his case.
SakharovPrize 2015 Award Ceremony
VIDEO – #SakharovPrize 2015 Award Ceremony: speeches by @MartinSchulz, President of the European Parliament & by @miss9afi, wife of 2015 lauréate Raif Badawi.
Raif Badawi’s wife accepts prestigious Sakharov Prize for human rights
CBC – News – Canada – The Quebec wife of imprisoned Saudi blogger Raif Badawi received a standing ovation at the European Parliament assembly today as she accepted a prestigious human rights award on his behalf. Ensaf Haidar, who claimed refugee status in Quebec and lives with their three children in the Eastern Townships, accepted […]
European Parliament – Interview with Ensaf Haidar, wife of Sakharov Prize 2015 Raif Badawi (AR/EN) Frédérick Moulin
VIDEO – AR subtitled in EN – European Parliament – Award of the 2015 Sakharov Prize: interview with Ensaf Haidar, wife of Raif Badawi, Laureate of the 2015 Sakharov Prize – 15.12.2015 – European Parliament, Strasbourg. Ensaf Haidar, wife of Raif Badawi, Laureate of the 2015 Sakharov Prize: “Frankly, I feel that my happiness […]
My Husband Is In Prison For Exercising His Freedom Of Expression
HUFFINGTON POST CANADA – As we speak, he is locked inside a small cell in a remote prison in Saudi Arabia; a country where censorship prevails. A country, my country, which views women as second class citizens. A country, my husband’s country, that he so loves — all of its land, its women and men, […]
VIDEO: EU Parliament – Exchange with Ensaf Haidar, wife of Raif Badawi, Sakharov Prize 2015 (extracts)
Publiée le 14 déc. 2015 – European Parliament – Exchange of views with Ensaf Haidar, wife of the 2015 Laureate of the Sakharov Prize, Raif Badawi (in Arabic: رائف بدوي), and with Stavros Lambrinis, EU Special Representative for Human Rights (EXTRACTS) – European Parliament (EP) Committee on Foreign Affairs, EP Committee on Development, EP Subcommittee […]
Charlie versus Mohammed Plea for the freedom of speech
By Nina Scholz, Heiko Heinisch The terror attack on the editorial staff of Charlie Hebdo was the tragic peak of several attacks against the freedom of speech, carried out in the name of God or the prophet Mohammed, a practice that took its beginning a quarter century ago with the fatwa against Salman Rushdie and […]
Wife of Saudi blogger Raif Badawi says he is on hunger strike in prison
MONTREAL GAZETTE – Canadian Press – Ensaf Haidar said he started it on Tuesday to protest the move to what she calls an “isolated” prison about 90 kilometres from Djeddah. “We are very alarmed at the prison administration decision to transfer my husband to the Shabbat Central and fear it may lead to the […]
Jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi ‘on hunger strike’
VIDEO – Deutsche Welle (DW) – Raif Badawi has started a hunger strike protesting against new prison conditions, according to his wife. Ensaf Haidar said her husband has been on strike since Tuesday; she pleaded for him to be pardoned. Haidar tweeted on Thurday that Badawi had begun his hunger strike after being transferred to […]
An empty chair for Raif Badawi: follow the Sakharov Prize ceremony live
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT NEWS – Raif Badawi might be this year’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought laureate, but he won’t be there in person to collect the award in the Parliament on Wednesday 16 December. The Saudi blogger and human rights activist remains in prison and instead his wife Ensaf Haidar, who lives in […]