Ensaf Haidar

Ensaf Haidar
إنصاف حيدر
Haidar in 2015
Born1975 (age 48–49)[1]
NationalitySaudi Arabia
Canada
Occupation(s)Author, Human rights activist
Political partyBloc Québécois
Spouse
(m. 2002)
Children3
RelativesSamar Badawi (sister-in-law)

Ensaf Haidar (Arabic: إنصاف حيدر; born 1975) is a Saudi-Canadian human rights activist. Born in Jizan, Saudi Arabia, Haidar is the wife of Raif Badawi, a Saudi writer, dissident and activist who was sentenced to ten years in prison and 1000 lashes in 2014. She actively campaigns for his freedom.[2] Haidar is the President of the Raif Badawi Foundation for Freedom, which actively campaigns for freedom of speech and human rights awareness in the Arab World.[3] She ran as the Bloc Quebecois candidate in Sherbrooke for the 2021 Canadian federal election[4] but was defeated.[5]

  1. ^ "Ensaf Haidar". Other Press. Archived from the original on 2019-08-17. Retrieved 2019-08-17.
  2. ^ "Jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi wins Pen Pinter prize". 6 October 2015. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
  3. ^ "The Raif Badawi Foundation for Freedom". The Raif Badawi Foundation. Retrieved 2016-03-31.
  4. ^ "Ensaf Haidar veut faire une différence".
  5. ^ Canada, Elections. "Election Night Results - Electoral Districts". enr.elections.ca. Retrieved 2022-09-28.