Raif Badawi

The continued restrictions on Raif Badawi and Waleed abu al-Khair seriously undercut the Saudi government's narrative of transformative change under the auspices of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's Vision 2030.

"It is outrageous from our perspective that a country will sit there and lecture us, and make demands. "We demand the immediate release"... Really?" Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir said.

"I think the Canadian government is only beginning to understand how offensive their conduct has been to the Saudi government," former Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird said in an interview.

Saudi oil only comprises about 10 percent of Canada's total crude imports, representing 75,000 to 80,000 barrels per day.

Saudi Arabia has also cut diplomatic ties with Canada, frozen all new trade and investment and canceled flights via its national carrier to Toronto.

Seen as the modernizing face of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman was promoted to second-in-line to the throne on Wednesday.

Mohamed Ould Cheikh Ould Mkhaitir awaits the final verdict for a blog seen as critical of Mauritania's caste system.

Wife of jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi appeals to the U.S. president-elect.

The blogger was sentenced to death in 2014, but human rights groups say he is a prisoner of conscience.

Saudi Arabia has rejected a call to release Badawi and allow him to join his family in Canada.

Saudi Arabian blogger Raif Badawi was arrested four years ago for championing free speech.

Samar Badawi was arrested on Tuesday for operating a Twitter account on behalf of her jailed former husband.

The petition marks a year since the liberal blogger received his first lashes in the Gulf Kingdom.

Raif Badawi has been on hunger strike for 24 days.

Badawi's wife says his children hoped for his return "before the end of the year."

Raif Badawi has been on a hunger strike since Tuesday, according to his wife, Ensaf Haidar.

The user compared the death sentence handed down to Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh to the punishments meted out by Islamic State.

Badawi was sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes for comments made on his blog.

Saudi Arabia executed 2,200 people between January 1985 and June 2015.

Ramadan would be a suitable time to release a blogger who faces repeated public floggings in Jeddah.

Saudi Arabia has come under fire for sentencing Badawi to 1,000 lashes in 2013.

The force had previously condemned the site the "source of all evil".

Raif Badawi's family says they have information suggesting a Saudi judge will retry the controversial blogger on charges of apostasy.

The case of a Saudi blogger sentenced to 1,000 lashes has been widely criticized by Western governments.

Writer Raif Badawi is subject to weekly flogging for "insulting Islam".

Raif Badawi was arrested in 2012 for setting up an online forum for public debate.