US citizen jailed for criticising Saudi Arabia’s rulers freed
by Agence France-Presse in Dubai from World news | The Guardian on (#6A0XC)
Saad ibrahim Almadi was arrested in 2021 for social media posts on Yemen and the killing of Jamal Khashoggi
A US citizen sentenced to 19 years in a Saudi prison for social media posts criticising the kingdom's rulers has been released, his son has said.
Saad Ibrahim Almadi, a 72-year-old of Saudi origin, was arrested in 2021 for what his son, Ibrahim, described as mild" Twitter posts on topics including the war in Yemen and the 2018 killing of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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