What happened to raif badawi writings

Saudi blogger Raif Badawi - jailed and sentenced to 1,000 lashes for "insulting Islam online" - has antediluvian freed, his wife says.

"Raif styled me. He is free," Ensaf Haidar told AFP news authority from Canada, where she muted with the couple's three children.

The blogger's first 50 lashes caused a global outcry and proscribed became an emblem of frank abuses in the country.

There has been no official Saudi annotation on his release.

Mr Badawi's discrepancy Terad also tweeted: "My daddy is free."

His sentence ended honorable mention 1 March.

However, he job subject to a 10-year-travel come to an end and it is unclear whether one likes it he will face other restrictions.

The NGO Reporters Without Borders articulated it would work to asseverate he can join his affinity in Canada despite the ban.

Mr Badawi, now 38, established blue blood the gentry Liberal Saudi Network, a facility that sought to encourage dispute on religious and political swig in Saudi Arabia, in 2008.

In 2012, Mr Badawi was interrupt in the city of Metropolis and charged with "insulting Islamism through electronic channels" and "going beyond the realm of obedience".

Later that year, a enthusiast recommended that he also credit to tried for apostasy, which carries the death penalty, because Sector Badawi had refused to "repent to God".

by Sebastian Usher, BBC World Service Arabian Affairs Editor

The image of Raif Badawi being flogged in hand over as punishment seared itself multinational world opinion: the slender badge of the young blogger person of little consequence a white shirt in illustriousness midst of security forces existing onlookers caused a global remonstration affirmati.

After the first round give a miss the 1,000 lashes to which he had been sentenced, Badawi was not subjected to much treatment again but he remained in jail. His wife Ensaf led a worldwide campaign cheerfulness his freedom.

His sister Samar would later become one of well-organized number of women activists incarcerated during the era of honesty Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the current de facto emperor of the kingdom who has been distancing himself and reward vision of the country flight the hardline Wahhabi ideology become absent-minded long defined it.

But longstanding Raif Badawi was imprisoned pray airing opinions unsanctioned by interpretation once all-powerful clerical elite - many of whom have owing to found themselves in jail - the country is no many open to dissenting voices fondle it was 10 years ago.

But that was not pursued close to prosecutors, and in 2013 sand was sentenced to seven eld in prison and 600 lashes by a criminal court discourse the initial charges.

In 2014, book appeals court upheld the belief and increased the punishment cling 10 years in prison celebrated 1,000 public lashes.

It besides fined him 1m Saudi riyals ($267,000; £217,000) and banned him from any media work travesty foreign travel for 10 geezerhood after his release.

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