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Canada became embroiled in its epic dispute with Saudi Arabia largely over the fate of one man: Imprisoned 34-year-old blogger Raif Badawi.

The 34-year-old maintained a website, Free Saudi Liberals, that promoted secularism, free speech and took the occasional sarcastic jab at Saudi Arabia’s religious hardliners.

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Although benign by Canadian standards, for Saudi Arabia it was enough to hand Badawi a sentence of 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes for the crime of “insulting Islam through electronic channels.”

It’s also been enough for Saudi authorities to launch a full-blown diplomatic feud with Canada.

Canada accepted Badawi’s wife Ensaf Haidar and three children as refugees in 2013, gave them citizenship last month and has consistently called for Badawi’s release. One of these calls, prompted by the arrest of Badawi’s sister Samar, sparked the current spat.

The 2015 book 1000 Lashes is an English translation of many key posts from Free Saudi Liberals. (An archive of the original Arabic language posts is also located here). Below, a quick summary of the writings that helped spark a full-blown diplomatic tantrum from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.