Canada’s foreign ministry had sent a Twitter message saying it was ‘gravely concerned’ by a new wave of arrests of women and human rights campaigners in the kingdom
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Saudi Arabia puts freeze on new Canadian trade over ‘interference’
Saudi expels Canadian envoy, recalls its own after Canada demanded the immediate release of human rights campaigners swept up in a new crackdown