Canadian lawmakers vote to grant citizenship to Saudi blogger Raif Badawi ...Kuwait

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Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, who has been imprisoned in his home country since 2012, is being granted Canadian citizenship. Members of Canada's House of Commons on Wednesday unanimously voted to grant citizenship to Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, who has been imprisoned in his home country since 2012 and whose wife and three children live in Canada. The motion asks Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino to use his "discretionary power" to grant Canadian citizenship to Badawi, "in order to remedy a particular situation and unusual distress." He was convicted in 2014 to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes for "insulting Islam." He received 50 of those beatings in January 2015, but the rest of the ses

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