Tag Archives: Ensaf Haidar

Updates on Raif Badawi with Ensaf Haidar

by | April 28, 2019
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By Scott Douglas Jacobsen (based on Arabic to English translation by Melissa Krawczyk) *The Arabic script is at the bottom.* A prominent case of a writer shunted into jail within the freethought community, especially writers, is Raif Badawi. Badawi is a writer and dissident in Saudi Arabia, who is 35-years-old. He founded the website entitled… Read more »

“TOP URGENT” Message from Ensaf Haidar

by | December 10, 2015
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Ensaf Haidar, has posted a top urgent message on Facebook with an update on her husband’s condition: TOP URGENT: Saudi Prison administration transferred Raif Badawi to a new isolated prison and Raif started a hunger strike since Tuesday The prison administration transferred today my husband Raif Badawi to a new isolated prison called Prison Shabbat… Read more »

The Raif Badawi Foundation for Freedom

by | September 13, 2015
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Raif Badawi, the Saudi Arabian blogger and honourary citizen of Sherbrooke, Quebec, remains in a Saudi Arabian jail sentenced to a 1000 lashes. Today, Hemant Mehta at Friendly Atheist, who keeps his eye on Canadian news, alerted us to this announcement: On Friday, [Badawi’s] wife Ensaf Haidar announced the formation of the Raif Badawi Foundation… Read more »

The Non-Conference 2015: A message from Spencer Lucas, Founder and Organizer

by | April 7, 2015
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I launched The Non-Conference in November of 2014 with the rather bold intention that it would become an annual highlight in the atheist event calendar. With the success of the inaugural conference and the growing interest and excitement for the next, scheduled for August 2015, I am pleased to see that I was neither over-confident… Read more »