23-10-2018 23:02 via montrealgazette.com

Allison Hanes: Canada should respond strongly to Saudi Arabia

Before Jamal Khashoggi, there was Raif Badawi.
Now an honorary citizen of Montreal, whose wife and three children are Canadian citizens residing in Quebec, Badawi has been in prison since 2012 for writing a blog that promoted secularism and democracy in the theocratic monarchy of Saudi Arabia and sometimes criticized the government.
In early 2015, he was publicly flogged, receiving the first 50 of the thousand lashes ordered as part of his 10-year sentence for the crime of “insulting Islam
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