SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Samar Badawi

1981 - Today

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Samar bint Muhammad Badawi (Arabic: سمر بدوي; born 28 June 1981) is a Saudi Arabian human rights activist. She and her father filed court cases against each other in Saudi Arabia. Badawi's father accused her of disobedience under the Saudi Arabian male guardianship system and she charged her father with adhl—"making it hard or impossible for a person, especially a woman, to have what she wants, or what's rightfully hers; e.g, her right to marry" according to Islamic jurisprudence—for refusing to allow her to marry. After Badawi missed several trial dates relating to the charge, an arrest warrant was issued for her, and Badawi was imprisoned on 4 April 2010. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Samar Badawi is the 747th most popular social activist (up from 750th in 2019), the 256th most popular biography from Saudi Arabia (up from 286th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Saudi Arabian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Samar Badawi ranks 747 out of 840Before her are Aleta Baun, Alexandra Shevchenko, Enric Duran, Ruhollah Zam, Zainab Salbi, and Medea Benjamin. After her are Lillian Ngoyi, Máxima Acuña, Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, Inez Milholland, Hector Pieterson, and Lina Ben Mhenni.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1981, Samar Badawi ranks 650Before her are Cho Jae-jin, Alisan Porter, Athena Karkanis, Sergey Lagutin, Edu Dracena, and Gaby Mudingayi. After her are Hanna Pakarinen, Yuriorkis Gamboa, Daniel Moreno, Mirjam Weichselbraun, Jan Böhmermann, and Peter Nalitch.

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In Saudi Arabia

Among people born in Saudi Arabia, Samar Badawi ranks 256 out of 354Before her are Hamza al-Ghamdi (1980), Osama Hawsawi (1984), Abdulaziz Khathran (1973), Satam al-Suqami (1976), Mohamed Kanno (1994), and Khaled Al-Eid (1969). After her are Hamzah Saleh (1967), Fahad Al-Mehallel (1970), Hussein Abdulghani (1977), Abdullah Al-Mayouf (1987), Fahad Al-Bishi (1965), and Hamad Al-Montashari (1982).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Saudi Arabia

Among social activists born in Saudi Arabia, Samar Badawi ranks 5Before her are Mukhtar al-Thaqafi (622), Nimr al-Nimr (1959), Manal al-Sharif (1979), and Loujain al-Hathloul (1989). After her are Rahaf Mohammed (2000).