Wife of Jailed Saudi Blogger to Address U.N. Rights Council With Saudi Ambassador Present
For the first time ever, Ensaf Haidar, author and wife of jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, will address the United Nations, in a Human Rights Council address scheduled for Tuesday in Geneva.
GENEVA — The wife of jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi—the world's most famous political prisoner—will address the United Nations for the first time in a Human Rights Council speech on Tuesday that will take place in the presence of Ambassador Abdulaziz Al-Wasil, the representative of Saudi Arabia, whose government controversially sits on the 47-nation body.
Raif Badawi is currently four years into a 10-year prison sentence, convicted for "insulting Islam" after he published a blog calling for a free society in Saudi Arabia.