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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11455

17 December 2015
Contents Publication in full By article 12 / 35
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / (ae) sakharov prize
Wife of Raif Badawi receives prize for her husband

Brussels, 16/12/2015 (Agence Europe) - Ensaf Haidar, the wife of Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, , received the Sakharov Prize for Human Rights 2015 on Wednesday 16 December on behalf of her husband, who's been imprisoned for insulting the values of Islam on his website of social, political and religious debate. At the prize-giving ceremony, with a portrait of her husband in her hands, Haidar received a long applause.

Raid Badawi's “crime” was to be a free voice in a country of pensée...

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