Saudi Arabian blogger and activist Raif Badawi, whose conviction caused widespread international outrage, was released Friday after a decade in prison for criticizing the country's conservative religious establishment, his Quebec-based wife confirmed.
Ensaf Haidar, who lives with the couple's.
The family of Raif Badawi, one of Saudi Arabia's most prominent political prisoners, has said the blogger is free after a decade in prison. Badawi had been lashed for allegedly "insulting Islam" on his online forum.
Raif Badawi, whose public flogging and imprisonment over charges of ""insulting Islam"" caused an international outcry, is out of prison but still cannot leave Saudi Arabia for 10 years