A resident of Saudi Arabia Salma al-Shehab was sentenced to 34 years in prison for the distribution of the posts of dissidents and activists on Twitter, writes The Guardian.
“A student of the University of Lids from Saudi Arabia, who returned home to the kingdom for the holidays, was sentenced to 34 years in prison for having an account on Twitter, where she was signed on dissidents and activists and shares their tweets on her page on her page “, – notes the publication.
The newspaper writes that the court passed this sentence after the visit of US President Joe Biden to the kingdom.
Initially, Ash Shekhab was sentenced to three years in prison for using the Internet in order to “cause public unrest and destabilize civil and national security.” Later, the court tightened the verdict after the prosecution called for the other possible offenses to take into account.
According to the publication, Shzheb was not a leading or especially active activist. She had 150 subscribers on Instagram and 2497 on Twitter. She spoke about the pandemia Covid-19, and also sometimes shared the tweets of some Saudi dissidents living outside of Saudi Arabia and calling to release political prisoners in the kingdom.