Saudi Arabia: Calls to Free Samar Albadawi · Global Voices
Haifa Alrasheed

Samar Albadawi, a divorced Saudi woman is currently being held in Brayman jail in Jeddah for disobeying her father. The story was on top of  the Saudi trends on Twitter -under the hashtags #samar and #Samar- since the weekend.  According to the documents published in a blog post, by Fouad Al-Farhan, the judge Abdullah Al-Othaim ruled in favour of her abusive drug-addicted father despite of the apparent evidence against him, family members testimonies against him, and letters addressing the issue from Royal authorities against the judge's verdict.
Samar's story caused a controversy on social media websites and blogs. While some stood by Samar's side, supporting her cause and “re-tweeting” blog entries calling to free her, others questioned the documents published in the blog, and whether they were official or not.
Free Samar !
Saudis are standing up for Samar in every possible way; blog entries, Facebook profiles photos, tweets and designs.
Below are some reactions from some supporters.
From Twitter, Ibrahim Falaqi calls people to use Twitter to help Samar:
Waleed Abu Alkhair justifies his support for the cause:
Free Samar Campaign Design
Meanwhile, HapHazard writes a blog on how to support Samar.
We're not sure yet!
On the other hand, some Saudis are skeptical about the Samar's story, and question about the authenticity of the documents published on blogs.
From Twitter, Bandar Bin Naif says:
Raed AlSaeed started a poll on Twitter and the results were:
Waiting
Meanwhile, the support campaign is still progressing, and now has a Facebook fan page, a CrowdVoice page, and the Samar's hashtags are still active and trending in hope that an official move will be taken.
As a last word, Eyad Qaes suggests: