(FILES) Ensaf Haidar holds a picture of her husband Raif Badawi after accepting the European Parliament’s Sakharov human rights prize on behalf of her husband, at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, in eastern France. AFP

Members of Amnesty International hold up portraits of jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi and Saudi human rights activist and lawyer Waleed Abu Alkhair as they demonstrate in front of the embassy of Saudi Arabia in Berlin. AFP

Raif Badawi, who encouraged religious and political debate, has been held since 2012. The winner of the Reporters Without Borders prize for press freedom was arrested and detained in Saudi Arabia in 2012 on charges of “insulting Islam.” BBC

Raif Badawi has served a 10-year prison sentence in Saudi Arabia. At the end of 2014, Badawi, now 38, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and 50 lashes a week for twenty weeks. REUTERS

Amnesty International protesters in front of the Saudi Embassy in London. Raif Badawi’s first flogging in Jeddah square in Saudi Arabia shocked the world and was described by the United Nations as “cruel and inhuman.” After the outcry, he was not lashed again. EPA