Canada: Badawi and Saudi Arabia

canada: Canada stands together with the Badawi family in this difficult time, and we continue to strongly call for the release of both Raif and Samar Badawi, according to The Chronicle Herald. Chrystia Freeland cafreeland August 2, 2018 I'm proud to see Canada address a human rights violation committed by Saudi Arabia against a female Saudi-American activist and her brother whose family was granted asylum here. Very alarmed to learn that Samar Badawi, Raif Badawi's sister, has been imprisoned in Saudi Arabia. I'm even more impressed by the fact Canada is standing firm, despite the Saudis' decision to immediately cut off diplomatic ties in response. The Saudis have faced harsher criticism before regarding their failure to accept refugees or to help fellow Muslim countries in their time of need, and so much more. I'm equally perplexed by Saudi Arabia's further escalation of this dispute with economic measures such as selling off Canadian securities, halting all Canadian grain purchases, stopping all medical treatment programs in Canada and relocating Saudi scholarship recipients to other countries. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.