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.
Wife of Jailed Saudi Blogger to Address U.N. Rights Council With Saudi Ambassador Present
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.
