- 19 Aug 2022 01:34
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A woman has been sentenced to 34 years in prison by a Saudi court for allegedly spreading "rumors", and copying statements from political dissidents, through the internet site Twitter.
The woman was a Saudi citizen but had been in the United Kingdom (England) as a doctoral student. Presumably, all the posts she had made on Twitter had been done while she was in the United Kingdom.
The court ruling comes amid Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's crackdown on dissent.
The sentence is considered "shocking", even by Saudi standards of justice.
The woman is Salma al-Shehab, a mother of two and a researcher at Leeds University in Britain. She was detained during a family vacation on January 15, 2021, days before she planned to return to the United Kingdom.
According to the woman, she had been held for over 285 days in solitary confinement before her case was even referred to court.
Saudi doctoral student gets 34 years in prison for tweets | AP News, Isabel Debre, August 17, 2022
https://apnews.com/article/saudi-doctor ... b475c79121
The woman was a Saudi citizen but had been in the United Kingdom (England) as a doctoral student. Presumably, all the posts she had made on Twitter had been done while she was in the United Kingdom.
The court ruling comes amid Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's crackdown on dissent.
The sentence is considered "shocking", even by Saudi standards of justice.
The woman is Salma al-Shehab, a mother of two and a researcher at Leeds University in Britain. She was detained during a family vacation on January 15, 2021, days before she planned to return to the United Kingdom.
According to the woman, she had been held for over 285 days in solitary confinement before her case was even referred to court.
Saudi doctoral student gets 34 years in prison for tweets | AP News, Isabel Debre, August 17, 2022
https://apnews.com/article/saudi-doctor ... b475c79121