Amnesty International says the sister of jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi has been detained, describing her arrest as damning proof of the kingdoms human rights violations. Samar Badawi was arrested with her two-year-old daughter in the Saudi city of Jeddah on Tuesday and questioned by police for four hours before being transferred to Dhaban prison,...

A Saudi blogger sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes has won the European Union (EU)s prestigious Sakharov Prize for human rights. On Thursday, Raif Badawi was honored as a symbol of the fight for freedom of speech after a vote at the European Parliament in the French city of Strasbourg. I urge the king of Saudi Arabia to free him,...

Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, who has been sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in prison for insulting Wahhabism, says his ordeal was merely because of an expression of opinion. All this cruel suffering happened to me because I expressed my opinion, Badawi said in his first letter from prison since he was jailed in 2012. The Saudi blogger received ...

The flogging of Saudi bloggerRaif Badawihas not gone ahead after medics advised his punishment be postponed for a second week, Amnesty International has confirmed. On Thursday, Amnesty said a committee of eight doctors carried out a series of tests on the father-of-three and recommended he was not publicly flogged again today. Mr Badawi had been ...

A Saudi blogger convicted of insulting Islam was brought after Friday prayers to a public square in the port city of Jeddah and flogged 50 times before hundreds of spectators, a witness to the lashing said. The witness said Raif Badawis feet and hands were shackled during the flogging but his face was visible. He remained silent and did not cry out,...

(CNN)-- Prominent Saudi activist Raif Badawi on Wednesday was sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes by a Saudi court for insulting Islam, said his wife and a source who followed the case closely. Badawi had appealed his original 2013 conviction, which carried a sentence of seven years in prison and 600 lashes, for insulting Islam and violating ...