A rights group announced on Monday that a Saudi doctoral student at Leeds University in the UK had been freed after receiving a 34-year word for her involvement in Saudi Arabia‘s Twitter activity had been significantly reduced.
Salma al-Shehab, a mother of two, had been sentenced to 34 years in prison again in 2022 over her posts.
A London-based Saudi right group, ALQST, announced her transfer. In January, ALQST and other teams said al-Shehab had seen her word reduced to four years in prison, with an extra four times suspended.
” Her entire freedom must now be granted, including the right to go to complete her reports”, the team said.
Saudi Arabia did not immediately recognize her release. The Associated Press contacted Saudi authorities for reply, but they did not respond right away.
Just weeks before she planned to return to the United Kingdom, Al-Shehab was taken away from her family on January 15, 2021. She is a member of Saudi Arabia’s Shiite Muslim majority, which has longer complained of systematic discrimination in the Sunni-ruled nation.
Judges accused al-Shehab of “disturbing people buy” and “destabilizing the cultural fabric”- claims stemming only from her social media activity, according to an official demand plate. They claimed al-Shehab” transmitted fake rumors” and that he followed and retweeted dissident Online accounts.
