Saudi Arabia Hands Down Decades Long Prison Sentences For Social Media
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Date: 2022-09-16

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Recently, social media users in Saudi Arabia have been sentenced to extreme prison sentences over criticizing the Kingdom online. On August 16th, Salma al-Shehab was given a 34-year sentence for following and retweeting posts by activists and dissidents. Salma, a student at Leeds University in the United Kingdom, had been visiting her home in Saudi Arabia during a holiday break when she was detained by authorities. She was initially sentenced to three years for the crime of "causing public unrest and destabilizing civil and national security." Later an appeals court added the charge of "assisting those who seek to cause the public unrest and destabilize civil and national security by following their Twitter accounts and retweeting." The newly added charge resulted in a new sentence, which also tacked on a 34-year travel ban. Shortly after the sentencing of Salma, a second woman, Nurah bint Saeed Qahtani, was reported on August 31st to have been sentenced to 45 years in prison for similar "offenses," such as "damaging the country through her social media activity." Abdullah Alaoudh, regional director of Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), stated, "It seems like the beginning of a new wave of sentences and convictions by new judges who have been placed in the specialized criminal court." These sentences come after President Biden visited Saudi Arabia in July, a move many believe granted the Kingdom legitimacy and emboldened their authoritarian actions. 

Source:
Saudi Arabia Hands Down Decades-Long Prison Sentences for Social Media
https://www.atheistrepublic.com/news/saudi-arabia-hands-down-decades-long-prison-sentences-social-media 
Location: Saudi Arabia