Ten years ago, her husband was arrested in Saudi Arabia for a blog criticizing his country’s religious police. Raif Badawi was also charged with standing up for women’s rights. The blogger had to go to jail for this, received fifty strokes of the cane plus a fine of 200,000 euros that has yet to be settled. The case received international attention, especially when several more rounds for a total of 1000 lashes threatened that could have killed the weakened Badawi – the Saudi regime eventually waived the remaining flogging.
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