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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Stephanie Kirchgaessner

Saudi woman jailed for 45 years over social media use, says group

News of the sentence comes after Salma al-Shehab was convicted for following Twitter accounts of dissidents in exile.
News of the sentence comes after Salma al-Shehab was convicted for following Twitter accounts of dissidents in exile. Photograph: Gregory Bull/AP

Another Saudi Arabian woman has been sentenced to decades in prison by the kingdom’s terrorism court for using social media to “violate the public order”, according to court documents seen by a human rights group.

Nourah bint Saeed al-Qahtani was sentenced to 45 years in prison after a specialised criminal court convicted her of “using the internet to tear [Saudi Arabia’s] social fabric”, according to documents that were obtained and reviewed by Democracy for the Arab World Now (Dawn), an organisation founded by Jamal Khashoggi.

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