Ensaf Haidar, Centre, the wife of the Saudi Blogger Raef Badawi, holds a vigil in Montreal on January 13, 2015 urging Saudi Arabia to free her husband. (Agence France-Presse
Rights group Amnesty International said Thursday that Saudi Arabia would postpone the flogging of blogger Raef Badawi, whose case has sparked international criticism, for a second week on medical grounds.
"The planned flogging of Raef Badawi will be suspended this Friday after a medical committee assessed that he should not undergo a second round of lashes on health grounds," the London-based watchdog said in a statement.