A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced a woman to 45 years in prison for using social media to “violate the public order.”
Nourah bint Saeed al-Qahtani was convicted "likely within last week" by the Saudi Specialized Criminal Court on charges of "using the internet to tear the (Saudi) social fabric" and "violating public order by using social media", according to documents obtained by the Washington-based Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) organisation.
Qahtani's conviction has come just weeks after a British mother-of-two Salma al-Shehab was handed a 35-year sentence for following and retweeting dissidents and activists on Twitter.
