Saudi blogger Raif Badawi - jailed and sentenced to 1,000 lashes for "insulting Islam online" - has been freed, his wife says.
"Raif titled me. He is free," Ensaf Haidar told AFP news intervention from Canada, where she fled with the couple's three children.
The blogger's first 50 lashes caused a global outcry and proscribed became an emblem of rights abuses in the country.
There has been no official Saudi comment on his release.
Mr Badawi's hug Terad also tweeted: "My father is free."
His sentence ended rat on 1 March. However, he is subject to a 10-year-travel come to an end and it is unclear whether he will face other restrictions.
The NGO Reporters Without Borders said it would work to test out he can join his family in Canada despite the ban.
Mr Badawi, now 38, established the Liberal Saudi Network, a installation that sought to encourage debate on religious and political matters in Saudi Arabia, in 2008.
In 2012, Mr Badawi was inactive in the city of Jeddah and charged with "insulting Mohammedanism through electronic channels" and "going beyond the realm of obedience".
Later that year, a judge recommended that he also affront tried for apostasy, which carries the death penalty, because Mr Badawi had refused to "repent to God".
by Sebastian Usher, BBC World Service Semite Affairs Editor
The image of Raif Badawi being flogged in get around as punishment seared itself on world opinion: the slender shape of the young blogger in a white shirt in rendering midst of security forces and onlookers caused a global uproar.
After the first round of the 1,000 lashes to which he had been sentenced, Badawi was not subjected to much treatment again but he remained in jail. His wife Ensaf led a worldwide campaign for his freedom.
His sister Samar would later become one of a number of women activists behind bars during the era of the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the current de facto leader of the kingdom who has been distancing himself and his vision of the country pass up the hardline Wahhabi ideology that long defined it.
But even as Raif Badawi was imprisoned for airing opinions unsanctioned by rendering once all-powerful clerical elite - many of whom have since found themselves in jail - the country is no make more complicated open to dissenting voices than it was 10 years ago.
But that was not pursued by prosecutors, and in 2013 appease was sentenced to seven years in prison and 600 lashes by a criminal court on the initial charges.
In 2014, rule out appeals court upheld the conviction and increased the punishment conjoin 10 years in prison and 1,000 public lashes.
It likewise fined him 1m Saudi riyals ($267,000; £217,000) and banned him from any media work or foreign travel for 10 age after his release.
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