A woman in Saudi Arabia was recently sentenced to 34 years in prison for her Twitter activity. Now another woman has been tried.
In Saudi Arabia, another woman has apparently been sentenced to decades in prison for her activities on Twitter. Nura al-Kahtani was sentenced to 45 years in prison, the DAWN organization reported, citing court documents. She wanted to “tear up the social fabric (of the kingdom) with the help of the internet” and “violated public order with social media,” quoted DAWN.
Just a few weeks earlier, Salma al-Shihab had been sentenced to 34 years in prison in Saudi Arabia for following activists on Twitter and sharing their posts. At the time, the human rights organization GCHR quoted allegations from the public prosecutor’s office that she had “destabilized social and state security”.
The new verdict shows how “encouraged the Saudi authorities feel to punish even the mildest criticism of their citizens,” said DAWN research director Abdullah Alaudh. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman would not allow such “vindictive and excessive punishments” if he feared it would result in conflict with the US and other Western governments.
US President Joe Biden met Crown Prince Mohammed in July in the coastal town of Jeddah. The controversial visit is considered a diplomatic upgrade for the crown prince, whom US secret services blame for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 and who was partly isolated internationally after the fact.
The Washington-based organization DAWN campaigns for democracy in the Middle East and North Africa. Khashoggi had initiated its establishment.
Source: Stern
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