VIDEO - Sakharov Prize Network Conference: family photo, address by Martin SCHULZ, EP President and Ensaf HAIDAR, wife and representative of Raif Badawi and ambiance shots. Sakharov Prize Network Conference in the EP in Brussels. Family photo, address by Martin SCHULZ, EP President and Ensaf HAIDAR, wife and representative of Raif Badawi and Cutaways from […]
VIDEO - Interview - ABC Australia - The wife of a Saudi Arabian liberal blogger who was jailed and sentenced to receive 1,000 lashes has described her shock when she found out he had been publicly flogged. Raif Badawi was arrested in 2012 and initially sentenced to seven years’ jail and 600 lashes for a […]
MAIL ON LINE - His wife Ensaf Haidar, the President co-founder, Raif Badawi Foundation for Freedom (RBFF), has launched a worldwide campaign to secure his freedom. Here, in an excerpt from her new book ‘Raif Badawi, The Voice of Freedom: My Husband, Our Story’ (Other Press) Ensaf describes the horror of watching footage of her loved […]
(NEWSER) – “Will you promise me that you’ll … not tell the children?” So asked Saudi blogger Raif Badawi of his wife when he called in early January 2015 to break the news that the first 50 lashes of the 1,000 he had been sentenced by his country to receive would be doled out the […]
THE INDEPENDANT - UK - The wife of jailed Saudi Arabian blogger Raif Badawi has described the “torture” of being unable to help her husband as he was publicly flogged. Ensaf Haidar had fled her home country to seek refuge with their three children when the first part of the brutal sentence of 1,000 lashes […]
EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK - THE VOICE OF FREEDOM - THE GUARDIAN - After Saudi blogger Raif Badawi was arrested and sentenced to prison and 1,000 lashes, Ensaf Haidar wondered what to say when the person you love tells you that he’s going to be abused in the most horrible way. Ensaf Haidar fled to […]
VIDEO - PRESS TV _ Activist group Pixel HELPER projects the words “Daesh Bank” on the walls of Saudi Arabian embassy in Berlin to draw attention to the detention of Saudi blogger Raif Badawi and Riyadh’s alleged support of the Takfiri terrorist group. The Friday night “guerrilla light project” was organized by artist […]