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Home > News > PEN Atlas: Extract from new memoir by Ensaf Haidar

PEN Atlas: Extract from new memoir by Ensaf Haidar

Saudi blogger Raif Badawi is serving a sentence of 10 years in prison and 1000 lashes. On his blog, the Saudi Free Liberals Forum, Badawi championed secularism, free speech and questioned the place of religion in politics. On 23 March, English PEN and Little, Brown will hold a special vigil for Raif Badawi outside the Saudi Embassy in London. Here, an extract of Raif Badawi: The Voice of Freedom (Little, Brown), a new memoir by Raif’s wife, Ensaf Haidar.

Read ‘It’s all in a name’ here.


English PEN has been holding regular vigils outside the Saudi Embassy in London in support of Raif Badawi and Waleed Abulkhair since January 2015 when Badawi was first flogged for his peaceful activism. More than a year later, it is continuing to call for the immediate and unconditional release of Badawi and Abulkhair.

Tomorrow, English PEN and Little, Brown are joining forces to hold a special vigil to mark the release of Haidar’s memoir and to amplify the call for Badawi’s immediate release. Jimmy Wales, a long-standing supporter of Badawi, will also be in attendance.

Activists are asked to meet at the Curzon Street entrance to the Embassy (note: the postal address of the Embassy is 30-32 Charles Street, Mayfair, London) from 1pm, 23 March.

#FreeRaif #FreeWaleed @englishpen @LittleBrownUK

https://www.englishpen.org/campaigns/english-pen-and-little-brown-to-hold-special-vigil-for-imprisoned-blogger-raif-badawi/

Raif Badawi: The Voice of Freedom is out now (Little, Brown, £14.99).

Read extracts from Raif Badawi’s blog at the Guardian: ‘A look at the writings of Saudi blogger Raif Badawi’

Tuesday 22nd
March 2016

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