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Q: Ensaf Haidar appears so slight, so diminutive, that you wonder how she will manage in the surging human crush that forms at rush hour around New York’s Penn Station, from where she is waiting to catch a train to Washington DC. 
  
 All the more striking, perhaps, given the unbending campaign she has led this past year to seek freedom for her husband, the Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, who was arrested in 2012 – and who in January received the first 50 of the 1,000 lashes to which he was sentenced as part of his punishment for apostasy. 
  
 “He is not doing well,” Ms Haidar says, sitting in a café close to the train station, when asked of her husband’s condition. “He is physically weak and not in a strong mental shape.” 
  
 And how is her health, her mental state? “Ask me when Raif is out. I will then tell you. Right now, I don’t know how I feel.” 
  
 Ms Haidar, who is currently living in Canada, where she was granted political asylum, has relentlessly lobbied the governments of Europe and other Western countries on behalf of her husband – who is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence – urging them to speak directly with the Saudi leadership. 
  
 Her efforts, which have included writing a memoir – Raif Badawi, The Voice of Freedom: My Husband, Our Story – to be published next year by Little, Brown, have played out while juggling the task of raising the couple’s three young children, increasingly cognisant of their father’s absence. She keeps at it, one day at a time. 
  
 Having spoken at the New York offices of Amnesty International and met with commentators such as Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times on this sunny early-autumnal day, she will meet officials at the State Department and members of Congress, including Jim McGovern of Massachusetts, in Washington. 
  
 Mr McGovern, a Democrat and considered one of the most liberal members of the House, will pose for a picture with her in his office on Capitol Hill. 
  
 Throughout her campaign, Ms Haidar has adopted a constant but cautious line, appealing for her husband’s release but avoiding criticism of the Saudi rulers, or the conservative clerics who took offence at the comments her husband had written. She knows that a loose word or a misinterpreted comment could backfire. 
  
 “I keep the same tone that Raif uses. He is polite, he uses peaceful words. I have the same attitude and keep the same equilibrium,” she says. 
  
 The campaigners from Amnesty International, who are accompanying her to Washington and one of whom is acting as The Independent on Sunday’s translator, can afford to be a little more blunt. 
  
 Jasmine Heiss says Amnesty and other groups had urged President Barack Obama to raise the issue of human rights and the case of Mr Badawi and other prisoners when he met with the kingdom’s ruler, King Salman, earlier this month at the White House. 
  
 The State Department has in the past spoken of how it was “greatly concerned” by events such as the public flogging of Mr Badawi, but Ms Heiss says there was concern that the US government was putting oil and arms deals with Saudis ahead of human rights. 
  
 “We want the US government to call for Raif’s release and put that at the centre of its relationship with Saudi Arabia,” she says. 
  
 Yet, if Mr Obama were to be accused of putting matters such as weapons and oil ahead of human rights and transparency in his dealings with the Saudi monarchy, he would not be the first. 
  
 In 2006, Tony Blair halted a Serious Fraud Squad probe into claims that Britain’s biggest defence firm, BAE Systems, had paid bribes to secure an arms deal with Saudi Arabia in the 1980s. 
  
 BAE had always denied the accusation, but the decision to halt the investigation came as BAE was finalising a deal to sell 72 jets to the kingdom. (BAE later pleaded guilty in the US to charges of false accounting.) 
  
 “Our relationship with Saudi Arabia is vitally important for our country in terms of counter-terrorism, in terms of the broader Middle East, in terms of helping in respect of Israel and Palestine,” Mr Blair said of the decision at the time. “That strategic interest comes first.” 
  
 Against such stark political and strategic realities, Ms Haidar sticks to her message and focuses on the human side: that her husband has done nothing wrong and should be set free. 
  
 She says she is usually able to manage one or two phone calls with him each week. She tries in those fleeting moments to update him on their children, “who really miss their father a lot”. 
  
 The 36-year-old Ms Haidar is energetic and engaging, but she admits there are days of tears and frustration. She says “everything” about her husband’s incarceration, upheld by Saudi Arabia’s highest court this summer, is difficult. Everything is difficult for her husband, too. 
  
 However, she takes strength from the supporters and campaigners trying to help her and the realisation she is not entirely alone. She also tries to focus on what is at stake. “Sometimes I want to shout out. I’m sad, but I have to take care of things,” she says. “I have no choice but to continue.” ||||| LONDON — Raif Badawi, a blogger and activist who has been imprisoned and flogged publicly for criticizing Saudi Arabia’s religious establishment, was awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, the European Union’s top human rights award, on Thursday. 
  
 Martin Schulz, the president of the European Parliament, who announced the award, called Mr. Badawi “an extremely good man, an exemplary man who has had imposed on him one of the most gruesome penalties,” one that “can only really be described as brutal torture.” Mr. Schulz urged the Saudi king to “immediately grant mercy to Mr. Badawi and to free him so that he can accept the prize.” 
  
 He added, “In the case of Mr. Badawi, fundamental human rights are not only not being respected, they are being trodden underfoot.” 
  
 Mr. Badawi, 31, was arrested in 2012 — on charges that included apostasy, cybercrime and disobeying his father — after he started a website that criticized the Saudi religious establishment. In 2013, he was sentenced to seven years in prison and 600 blows with a cane. The next year, he was resentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 blows with a cane. He was not convicted of apostasy, which carries a death sentence. ||||| The Prize is awarded annually to a writer from Britain, the Republic of Ireland or the Commonwealth who, in the words of Harold Pinter’s Nobel speech, casts an ‘unflinching, unswerving’ gaze upon the world, and shows a ‘fierce intellectual determination … to define the real truth of our lives and our societies’. The winner must the author of a significant body of plays, poetry, or fiction of outstanding literary merit, written in English. 
  
 The prize is shared with an international writer of courage selected by English PEN’s Writers at Risk Committee in association with the winner. This half of the prize is awarded to someone who has been persecuted for speaking out about their beliefs. 
  
 Previous Winners ||||| Story highlights Saudi blogger Raif Badawi was convicted of "insulting Islam" and other charges in 2014 
  
 He was sentenced 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes 
  
 Badawi received the first 50 lashes in January, and his wife says they are set to resume soon 
  
 (CNN) A Saudi blogger convicted of "insulting Islam" is expected to receive the second 50 lashes of a 1,000-lash sentence soon, his wife says. 
  
 Blogger Raif Badawi has been behind bars since 2012 for his online posts and running a blog called "Saudi Arabian Liberals," where he hosted political and religious debate and advocated secularism in a highly religious society. 
  
 His wife, Ensaf Haidar, has said Badawi created the forum in 2008 in an effort to encourage discussion about faith. 
  
 The lashings are to be carried out 50 lashes at a time, 20 weeks in a row. Badawi received the first flogging in January 2015, but since then, the punishment has been pushed back several times. ||||| Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The sentence against Raif Badawi has sparked protests worldwide 
  
 Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, whose flogging sentence caused an outcry, has been awarded the European Parliament's Sakharov human rights prize. 
  
 Parliament President Martin Schulz urged Saudi King Salman "to free him, so he can accept the prize". 
  
 Mr Badawi was sentenced to 10 years in jail and 1,000 lashes in Saudi Arabia for "insulting Islam". 
  
 Earlier this month he also won the Pen Pinter Prize for championing free speech. 
  
 The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought has been awarded by the European Parliament since 1988 to individuals or organisations for their contribution to the fight for human rights and democracy. 
  
 It is named after the Soviet scientist and dissident Andrei Sakharov. 
  
 Flogging postponed 
  
 Mr Badawi, author of the website Free Saudi Liberals, was convicted of insulting Islam in 2012 and fined £175,000. 
  
 He received the first 50 lashes of his sentence in January, but subsequent floggings have been postponed. 
  
 In June, Saudi Arabia's Supreme Court upheld the verdict despite a foreign outcry. 
  
 "This man, who is an extremely good man, an exemplary man, has had imposed on him one of the most gruesome penalties," Mr Schulz told a packed European Parliament assembly in Strasbourg, France. 
  
 "I call on the Saudi king to immediately free him. Relations depend on human rights being respected by our partners... they are not only not being respected but are being trodden underfoot." 
  
 Guy Verhofstadt, leader of the European Parliament's Liberal bloc, said: "The European Parliament has sent today a strong political and humanitarian message to Saudi Arabian authorities." 
  
 Mr Badawi's wife Ensaf Haidar, now living Canada with their children, said the award was a "message of hope and courage". 
  
 "I thank the European Parliament," she told AFP news agency. 
  
 Mr Badawi was one of three nominees for this year's prize along with assassinated Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov and the Venezuelan opposition movement Mesa de la Unidad Democratica. 
  
 Previous winners include Nelson Mandela, Myanmar activist Aung San Suu Kyi and Pakistani education campaigner Malala Yousafzai. |||||
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A Saudi blogger has joined the ranks of Nelson Mandela, Malala, and all other notables who've taken home one of the European Union's most elite human-rights prizes—but as of now, he can't go and collect his award in person. EU leaders announced Thursday that Raif Badawi—who has been in prison since 2012 for the crime of "insulting Islam" on his blog—won the esteemed Sakharov Prize, a "freedom of thought" award established nearly 30 years ago in tribute to those who stand up for democracy and human rights, the AP reports. But Badawi, who was also announced as the co-winner of the PEN Pinter Prize earlier this month for being an "international writer of courage," is stuck in jail, serving out a 10-year sentence and waiting for his next set of 50 lashes (he's already endured the first 50 of the 1,000 he is to face). EU Parliament President Martin Schulz made an appeal Thursday in Strasbourg, France, imploring Saudi King Salman to let Badawi go, the BBC reports. "This man, who is an extremely good man, an exemplary man, has had imposed on him one of the most gruesome penalties," Badawi said in front of a packed Parliament assembly. Badawi's wife, Ensaf Haidar, who lives in Canada with their three kids, is also battling for her husband's release, seeking help from new PM Justin Trudeau on social media and writing a memoir to be published next year, the Independent notes. Via the BBC, Haidar tells AFP she sees this latest prize as a "message of hope and courage," but she still references her husband's poor health and worries the lashes could kill him, per the New York Times.