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Mike Pence urges Saudi Arabia to free blogger Raif Badawi

By DW
28 Jul 2019 | 9:36 am |

Washington, which usually refrains from criticizing human rights violations in Saudi Arabia, has called for the release of blogger Raif Badawi. The writer was whipped and sentenced to prison for "insulting Islam."

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