BEIRUT: A Saudi app that lets ordinary people “play the role of a police officer” may have alerted authorities to the tweets of a student whose sentencing to 34 years in jail has drawn international condemnation.
Just weeks after the ruling against Salma al-Shehab — a doctoral candidate at Leeds University in England — rights groups say another woman was given a 45-year sentence for her social media posts — highlighting a crackdown targeting women online.
