Saudi woman jailed for social media ‘violations’, says rights group

Nourah bint Saeed al-Qahtani accused of using the internet to tear Saudi Arabia's social fabric'

Another Saudi Arabian woman has been sentenced to decades in prison by the kingdom's terrorism court for using social media to violate the public order", according to court documents seen by a human rights group.

Nourah bint Saeed al-Qahtani was sentenced to 45 years in prison after a specialised criminal court convicted her of using the internet to tear [Saudi Arabia's] social fabric", according to documents that were obtained and reviewed by Democracy for the Arab World Now (Dawn), an organisation founded by Jamal Khashoggi.