Saudi woman jailed for 34 years over tweets is released Salma al-Shehab was arrested in 2021 during holiday in Saudi Arabia.
A Saudi student at Leeds University who was sentenced to 34 years in prison over her use of Twitter, now X, has been released after her sentence was dramatically reduced.
But an appeals court later handed down the new sentence – 34 years in prison followed by a 34-year travel ban – after a public prosecutor asked the court to consider other alleged crimes.
In January, ALQST and other groups said al-Shehab’s sentence had been reduced to four years in prison, with an additional four years suspended.
She was initially sentenced to serve three years in prison for the “crime” of using an internet website to “cause public unrest and destabilise civil and national security”.
