A 34-year-old woman named Salma al-Shehab was sentenced to 34 years in prison for following opposition and activist accounts on Twitter in her country of vacation, Saudi Arabia.
The Twitter account of a woman named Salma al-Shehab (34), who returned to her country of Saudi Arabia for a vacation while she was doing her doctorate in Britain, became a problem for her.
The mother of two, Salma al Shehab, was first arrested and prosecuted after she was summoned for questioning by authorities over her tweets when she arrived in Saudi Arabia for vacation in 2020, sentenced to three years in prison for using a website that ’causes social unrest and destabilizes civil and national security’. was given.
Upon Al-Shehab’s objection, the appellate court made the request to examine other crimes as well.
34 years in prison for using a Twitter account
According to the news of The Guardian; It was alleged that Shehab helped those who seek social unrest and instability by following their Twitter accounts and retweeting their tweets.
The woman was sentenced to 34 years in prison.
He retweeted the posts of the opponents
When Al Shehab’s social media accounts are examined, it is seen that he has 159 followers on Instagram. “Dental hygienist, medical educator, PhD student at the University of Leeds, instructor at Princes Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, wife and mother of sons” On his Twitter account, which he defines as the ‘south’ and has 2 thousand 597 followers, it was seen that he occasionally retweeted the posts of the Saudi dissidents living in exile.