Relations between Saudi Arabia and Canada have taken a sudden turn for the worse after the Canadian foreign minister called for the release of detained women's rights activists. The dispute has been ...

Samar Badawi was detained in Saudi Arabia, where her brother has been held since 2012 for insulting Islam in blog posts. Reuters The dispute is centered on two Canadian government tweets that called ...

FILE - In this March 8, 2012 file photo, then Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and then first lady Michelle Obama present the 2012 International Women of Courage Award to Samar Badawi of ...

The dispute is centered on two Canadian government tweets that called on Saudi Arabia to release detained women's rights activists. "Very alarmed to learn that Samar Badawi, Raif Badawi's sister, has ...

Saudi human rights activist Samar Badawi was arrested on January 12, 2016, allegedly for running the Twitter account of her jailed husband, Waleed Abulkhair, a leading Saudi human rights lawyer and ...

The activist sister of prominent jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi was released on Wednesday after being detained in the kingdom, Human Rights Watch said. Amnesty International said earlier that Samar ...

Badawi's sister Samar also was imprisoned in 2018 in a crackdown targeting female activists who had peacefully advocated for greater freedoms, according to rights groups. She was freed last year.

In the aftermath of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, there has been a striking failure to speak up for other silenced voices in Saudi Arabia who may yet be saved from a similar ...

Lisbet Palme (from left) hands out the Olof Palme prizes to Tunisian lawyer Radhia Nasraoui and Saudi lawyer and human rights activist Waleed Abu al-Khair (prize was received by his wife, Samar Badawi ...

Canada's foreign minister said on Tuesday that she may meet with Saudi Arabia's foreign minister this week during the U.N. General Assembly in New York to discuss the ongoing political dispute between ...

One week after Britney Spears sent shockwaves across the world by relaying the conditions she has lived under for the past 13 years, a Los Angeles judge has denied her request to have her father ...

One week after Brittney Spears sent shockwaves across the world by relaying the conditions she has lived under for the past 13 years, a Los Angeles judge has denied her request to have her father ...