Saudi Arabia is to resume the flogging of Raif Badawi, the blogger whose first 50 lashes became the centre of an international outcry, his wife says she has been told. 
 
 Ensaf Haidar, who is now living in Canada with the couple’s children, said the same “informed source” who originally tipped her off to the flogging of her husband in January had told her the punishment was about to resume. 
 
 If the statement is true, it will be a snub to Britain, which privately and publicly has intervened in the case, and especially the Prince of Wales, regarded as one of the kingdom’s “oldest friends”, who raised Mr Badawi’s case personally with King Salman on a visit in February. 
 
 It may also be a response to the government's decision to drop a contract with the Saudi prison system worth £5.9 million, believed to have been taken in protest at Saudi Arabia's human rights record. 
 
 The flogging, which was suspended after the first 50 of 1,000 lashes were administered for health reasons, has not been resumed since. 
 
 “I was informed by an informed source, that the Saudi authorities have given the green light to the resumption of Raif Badawi’s flogging,” Mrs Haidar said, in a statement on a website set up in honour of her husband. 
 
 “The informed source also said that the flogging will resume soon but will be administered inside the prison.” 
 
 Mr Badawi was a liberal who was part of a brief flowering of dissent and political debate in the kingdom in the last decade. 
 
 That came to an abrupt halt with the Arab Spring, when liberals were seen as more of a threat to ruling regimes around the region rather than as a bulwark against hardline Islamism. 
 
 Mr Badawi, who ran a blog and wrote articles in particular criticising the country’s religious establishment, was arrested in May 2012 and sentenced in May last year to ten years in prison, a 10-year travel ban, and a ban on appearing on media outlets, as well as the 1,000 lashes. 
 
 The first 50 of the lashes were administered in a public square in Jeddah in January, and prompted international concern. The UN commissioner for human rights, Prince Zeid Al-Hussein, called the sentence “cruel and inhuman punishment”, while key Saudi allies Britain and America also issued statements of concern. 
 
 After the Prince of Wales’s intervention, it was hinted to journalists that King Salman may have used his ruler’s prerogative to intervene to suspend the flogging. 
 
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 However, since then, relations between Britain and Saudi Arabia have soured. 
 
 Earlier this month, Michael Gove, the justice secretary, announced he was cancelling a contract to provide training to the Saudi prisons system, in theory part of its reform process. 
 
 Although no reason was given, it was widely held to be a response to a campaign in another prominent human rights case, that of Ali Mohammed al-Nimr, a Saudi Shia sentenced to death by beheading and crucifixion for taking part in protests when he was just 17, in 2012. That campaign was led by Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader. 
 
 In Monday’s Daily Telegraph, the Saudi ambassador to London reacted with fury to the suspension, accusing Mr Corbyn of “breaching respect” and demanding that issues of internal policies and trade be kept separate. 
 
 The resumption of Mr Badawi’s flogging may be a response to that campaign. 
 
 Mrs Haidar added: “I do not understand this decision especially as Raif’s case is still being reviewed by the supreme court according to a senior source in the Saudi Ministry of Justice and according to the statement of UK Foreign Office minister, Tobias Ellwood, who told the House of Commons in July that my husband’s case was still being examined by Saudi judges.” 
 
 She has warned that Mr Badawi may not be physically strong enough to bear the full punishment, even if as planned it is spread out over 20 weeks. 
 
 “I call on his Majesty King Salman to gracefully end my husband’s ordeal and to pardon him,” she added. “I also appeal to his Majesty to allow him to be deported to Canada to be reunited with his family and children, who have been deprived of their father for more than four years.” 
 
 There was no immediate response from either the Saudi Arabian embassy or the ministry of the interior. ||||| Story highlights Saudi blogger Raif Badawi was convicted of "insulting Islam" and other charges in 2014 
 
 He was sentenced 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes 
 
 Badawi received the first 50 lashes in January, and his wife says they are set to resume soon 
 
 (CNN) A Saudi blogger convicted of "insulting Islam" is expected to receive the second 50 lashes of a 1,000-lash sentence soon, his wife says. 
 
 Blogger Raif Badawi has been behind bars since 2012 for his online posts and running a blog called "Saudi Arabian Liberals," where he hosted political and religious debate and advocated secularism in a highly religious society. 
 
 His wife, Ensaf Haidar, has said Badawi created the forum in 2008 in an effort to encourage discussion about faith. 
 
 The lashings are to be carried out 50 lashes at a time, 20 weeks in a row. Badawi received the first flogging in January 2015, but since then, the punishment has been pushed back several times. ||||| I was informed by an informed source, that the Saudi authorities have given the green light to the resumption of Raif Badawi’s flogging. The informed source also said that the flogging will resume soon but will be administered inside the prison. 
 
 It is worth mentioning that the same source had warned me of Raif’s pending flogging at the beginning of January 2015 and his warning was confirmed, as Raif was flogged on 9th January. 
 
 While i do not understand this decision especially as Raif’s case is still being reviewed by the supreme court according to a senior source in the Saudi Ministry of Justice and according to the statement of UK Foreign Office minister, Tobias Ellwood, who told the House of Commons in July that my husband’s case was still being examined by Saudi judges. 
 
 I call on his Majesty King Salman to gracefully end my husband’s ordeal and to pardon him. I also appeal to his Majesty to allow him to be deported to Canada to be reunited with his family and children, who have been deprived of their father for more than four years. 
 
 I take this opportunity to remind Mr. Justin Trudeau, the new Canadian Prime Minister, of his promise to support Raif badawi and ensure his release. I plead with him to give Raif a White Passport to enable him to be reunited with his family in Canada. 
 
 Ensaf Haidar 
 
 26 October 2015 
 
 بيان عاجل جداً: خبر بإمكانية إستئناف جلد رائف بدوي 
 
 تم إبلاغي قبل قليل من قبل مصدرٍ مطلع، بإن السلطات السعودية اعطت الضوء الأخضر بالبدء من جديد في تنفيذ عقوبة الجلد على رائف بدوي، وأن الجلد سيتم قريباً في داخل السجن. 
 
 يُذكر ان المصدر المطلع كان قد ابلغني في بداية شهر يناير2015 بأن رائف بدوي سُيجلد في نفس الشهر، وبالفعل صدق خبره، و تم جلد رائف في التاسع من يناير. 
 
 وفي الوقت الذي لاأفهم فيه سبب هذا القرار لاسيما وأن قضية رائف بدوي لازالت منظورة امام المحكمة العليا ولم تبت فيها، على حسب مصدر في وزارة العدل السعودية، وعلى حسب تصريح توبياس إيلوود، وزير مكتب وزارة الخارجية البريطانية، الذي ابلغ مجلس اللوردات في شهر يوليو 2015 إن قضيته لازالت منظورة امام القضاء السعودي. 
 
 فإنني اناشد جلالة الملك سلمان أن يوقف عقوبة الجلد على رائف، و ينهي معاناته وإسرته، وأرجوه أن يصدر عفوا عنه ويرحله إلى كندا كي يلتأم شمله مع إسرته واطفاله، الذي حرموا منه منذ اكثر من اربع سنوات. 
 
 كما اني اذكّر رئيس الوزراء الكندي الجديد جستين ترودوا، بوعده لي بدعم قضية رائف بدوي والعمل على إطلاق سراحه، واناشده ان يمنح رائف بدوي جواز سفر ابيض، يمكنه من الإلتحاق بأسرته. 
 
 إنصاف حيدر 
 
 26 اكتوبر 2015
– Whippings could soon resume for a blogger in Saudi Arabia sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes for "insulting Islam," CNN reports. Raif Badawi, who advocated for secularism on his blog Saudi Arabian Liberals, has been in prison since 2012 and received the first 50 of his scheduled weekly lashes in January 2015. According to the Telegraph, an international outcry arose after the initial floggings, and the second round was delayed while Badawi healed. Now, his wife Ensaf Haidar says a trusted source told her those next 50 lashes have been approved by authorities and could happen any day. “I call on his Majesty King Salman to gracefully end my husband’s ordeal and to pardon him,” she says. She is hoping Badawi will instead be deported to Canada, where she and their children have been living.