Jailed Saudi blogger’s children appeal to Justin Trudeau in video message
MONTREAL — Raif Badawi’s children are appealing to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to personally call Saudi Arabian authorities to ask for their father to be freed as the fifth anniversary of his imprisonment looms.
“Now it’s enough, we’ve waited too long, we need to see our father,” one of the blogger’s three children says in a French-language video message posted on Amnesty International’s website Friday.
“Mr. Trudeau, pick up the phone, call the king of Saudi Arabia, so our father comes back,” the message continues.
The Canadian chapter of the human-rights organization posted the video on its French-language website ahead of the anniversary of the Saudi blogger’s arrest.