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A Saudi student at Leeds University who had returned home to the kingdom for a holiday has been sentenced to 34 years in prison for having a Twitter and for following and retweeting dissidents and activists.

The sentencing by Saudi’s special terrorist court was handed down weeks after the US president Joe Biden’s visit to Saudi Arabia, which human rights activists had warned could embolden the kingdom to escalate its crackdown on dissidents and other pro-democracy activists.

The case also marks the latest example of how the crown prince Mohammed bin Salman has targeted Twitter s in his campaign of repression, while simultaneously controlling a major indirect stake in the US social media company through Saudi’s sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund (PIF).

Salma al-Shehab, 34, a mother of two young children and a PhD Student in the University of Leeds, was initially sentenced to serve three years in prison for the “crime” of using an internet website to “cause public unrest and destabilise civil and national security”. But an appeals court on Monday handed down the new sentence – 34 years in prison followed by a 34-year travel ban – after a public prosecutor asked the court to consider other alleged crimes.

According to a translation of the court records, which were seen by the Guardian, the new charges include the allegation that Shehab was “assisting those who seek to cause public unrest and destabilise civil and national security by following their Twitter s” and by re-tweeting their tweets. It is believed that Shehab may still be able to seek a new appeal in the case.

By all s, Shehab was not a leading or especially vocal Saudi activist, either inside the kingdom or in the UK. She described herself on Instagram – where she had 159 followers – as a dental hygienist, medical educator, PhD student at Leeds University and lecturer at Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, and as a wife and a mother to her sons, Noah and Adam.

Her Twitter profile showed she had 2,597 followers. Among tweets about Covid burnout and pictures of her young children, Shehab sometimes retweeted tweets by Saudi dissidents living in exile, which called for the release of political prisoners in the kingdom. She seemed to the case of Loujain al-Hathloul, a prominent Saudi feminist activist who was previously imprisoned, is alleged to have been tortured for ing driving rights for women, and is now living under a travel ban.

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People really living in bondage! These dudes crazy

What freedom

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,z

Eeyaa

Religion of peace

Where is Freedom of speech

Dictatorship which is common in countries like Saudi, China, North Korea, Russia, Belarus e.t.c . She is lucky she wasn't sentenced to death by beheading.

Salma al-Shehab:

We are deeply concerned to learn of the recent development in Salma’s case and are seeking advice on whether there is anything we can do to her.

Our thoughts remain with Salma, her family, and her friends among our close-knit community.

University of Leeds

It's all good

Saudi is friend of USA

There will be outhrage if this is Russia or china
Or of the enemy countries of the west.

where is that my dammmn niggar paddy (slawomir)

.... as he normally called them Islambad. na their hand work be this

Slavery religion

I know they will be here to attack Muslims. It is Saudis law, if you are Saudis citizen you follow it if not you go to another country and get it citizenship.

Na WA oooo.. I know her Wella. This very bad. sometimes Nigeria is not even different in politics from this type of saudi country. Na king dey rule Nigeria no be president.

This what happened when you have terrorist in power.

As for agbado relatives, this same fade await una, when a terrorist like Shettima take over power when baba wey no well finally kick bucket this and other terrorism act will be una case for this country.

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the works of religion.

Pathetic

I dey travel oo

lol activists don chop breakfast....


She for just colet her 3 years in peace Appeal come increase am go 34