AWARDS & PRIZES

Raif is in imprisoned since 2012 and subsequently sentenced to 1000 Lashes, 10 Years in prison, and a fine of 1 million Saudi Riyal for... blogging.


  • Salam Prize for Peace (Frankfurt)
  • Liberal International’s (LI) 2016 Prize for Freedom
  • The Holme Award 2016
  • International Publishers Association’s Prix Voltaire
  • The Sakharov Prize 2015
  • Raif & Waleed nominated for Nobel Peace Prize 2015
  • Raif, Ensaf Haidar & Waleed AbulKhair awarded Freethinker Prize 2015 at Uni Zurich
  • The Freedom of Speech Award 2015 from Deutsche Welle
  • The Courage Award 2015 from the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy.
  • The Aikenhead Award 2015 from Scottish Secular Society.
  • The PEN Pinter Prize 2015.
  • The Sir Karl Popper Prize 2015.
  • The Medal of Honor Strasbourg 2015
  • Citizen of Honour of Sherbrooke City
  • The Franco-German Journalism Prize 2015.
  • Thomas Dehler medal From Free Democratic Party
  • The Press Freedom Prize 2015 from Reporters Without Borders Sweden.
  • The Honorary Title for Freedom of Expression, granted by Brussels University Alliance (VUB and ULB), 2015.
  • The One Humanity Award 2014 From PEN Canada.
  • The Netizen Prize of Reporters without Borders 2014.
  • Honorary Member of PEN Canada
  • Honorary Member of PEN Denmark
  • Honorary Member of PEN Germany
  • Nominated by Spain’s Individual Freedom Party (P-LIB) for the 2014 Freedom Award.
  • Nominated for the 2014 International Publishers Association’s Freedom to Publish Prize.
  • Gulf States Prize - 2013

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