Canada votes to offer citizenship to jailed Saudi blogger
Raif Badawi, whose wife and children live in Canada, is serving a 10-year jail sentence in Saudi Arabia for "insulting Islam."
Canadian lawmakers voted on Wednesday to grant citizenship to a jailed Saudi blogger whose family lives in Quebec.
By a unanimous vote, the House of Commons approved a motion calling on Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino to offer Raif Badawi citizenship “in order to remedy a particular situation and unusual distress.” The non-binding motion doesn't legally require Mendicino to act.
