Article 62QBM A student was jailed for her tweets –thank the Saudi regime’s enablers | Arwa Mahdawi

A student was jailed for her tweets –thank the Saudi regime’s enablers | Arwa Mahdawi

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Arwa Mahdawi
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Salma al-Shehab is sitting in prison because of a retweet. The 34-year-old Leeds University student and mother of two young boys was travelling home to Saudi Arabia for a holiday when she found herself summoned to a special terrorism court and charged with using a website to cause public unrest and destabilize civil and national security". What does that mean in plain English? She had a Twitter account and retweeted some dissidents. For that crime", she has been sentenced to 34 years in prison and, just to make sure she really learns her lesson, has also been given a 34-year travel ban.

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