Riyadh Saudi recalls Ambassador in Ottawa for consultations, reports the press Agency of Saudi Arabia.

in addition, the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Kingdom declared Canada's Ambassador persona non grata and gave him 24 hours to leave the country.

Also, Saudi Arabia took the conclusion about the freezing of all new trade and investment of remittances with Canada.

they say that the Kingdom reserves the right to take further actions. The dispute about the lives of human rights defenders

on Thursday Minister of foreign Affairs of Canada Chrystia Freeland said that "extremely alarmed" by the information on detention in Saudi Arabia human rights activist Samar Badawi, sister of Raif Badawi, a blogger and called for the release of both.

The Creator of the website "Liberal Saudi network Arabia" Raif Badawi was placed behind bars in 2012 for criticizing the commissioners of the clergy and of the religious police of the Kingdom. He is Also accused of verbal humiliation of Islam, cybercrime and disobeying the Pope, that Saudi Arabia is considered a crime. Badawi is serving a ten year prison sentence.



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