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Margot Wallström: a Voice in the Wilderness Bullied into Silence

by | March 29, 2015

When Sweden’s foreign minister Margot Wallström criticized Saudi Arabia’s oppressive treatment of women and its cruelty toward Raif Badawi, sentenced to receive ten years in prison and 1,000 lashes for the crime of championing secularism and free speech on the web, she set off a huge backlash that has jeopardized Sweden’s economy. It seems that Wallström’s… Read more »