Samar Badawi, the wife of Waleed Abulkhair and sister of Raif Badawi, was arrested this week in Saudi Arabia and charged with operating Waleed’s Twitter account. She was released the same day.

The arrest was reported in every major mainstream news publication within an hour of it breaking, and every human rights organization posted updates about Samar’s arrest through these last 48 hours.

She published a statement on her Facebook account this morning:
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