Saudi Court Jails US Citizen For 16 Years Over Tweets Against Kingdom
The United States said Tuesday it was raising with Saudi Arabia a captivity judgment handed to a US citizen over tweets critical of the area, another source of pressure between the major abettors .The State Department verified the detention of Saad Ibrahim Almadi, a US citizen of Saudi origin, and said the United States brought up his case starting in December and as lately as Monday. Almadi was doomed to 16 times in captivity for the tweets, his son Ibrahim verified to AFP.We’ve constantly and intensely raised our enterprises regarding the case at elderly situations of thSaudgovernment,bothStatDepartmenspokespersonVedantPatel told journalistsExercising freedom of expression should noway be criminalized,” he said. The Washington Post reported that Almadi, who lives in Florida and had gone to visit family, was detained in November at […]