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Saudi lawyer and Human rights activist Waleed Abulkhair, awarded the prestigious Ludovic Trarieux Prize for his work on defending human rights in the kingdom. The prize’s founder Bertrand Favreau said from Amsterdam that The annual legal award is one of the world’s oldest awards presented to lawyers who “through their work, activities or suffering defend the respect for human rights”. …

A Saudi court ordered the arrest of an eminent rights lawyer Waleed Abulkhair, who was on trial for defying the ruler and insulting the authorities in the conservative kingdom, according to his wife Samar Badawi. Abulkhair was on bail for organizing unapproved meetings for reformists when he went to the fifth hearing of his trial on Tuesday at a court …