Salma al-Shehab, a Saudi doctoral student at Leeds University, has been released from prison after her 34-year sentence for tweets supporting women's rights was drastically reduced. A London-based Saudi rights group, ALQST, announced her release, stating that she should now be granted full freedom, including the right to travel. Al-Shehab was detained in 2021 and charged with 'disturbing public order' and 'destabilizing the social fabric' based on her social media activity.
Doctoral student and women's rights advocate Salma al-Shehab speaks to a journalist at the Riyadh International Book Fair in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 2014.A Saudi doctoral student at Leeds University in Britain has been freed after seeing her 34-year sentence in Saudi Arabia for her activity on Twitter drastically reduced, a rights group said Monday
“Her full freedom must now be granted, including the right to travel to complete her studies,” the group said.“She spent almost 300 days in prolonged solitary confinement, was denied legal representation, and was then repeatedly convicted on terrorism charges and handed a decadeslong sentence,” said Dana Ahmed, a Mideast researcher at Amnesty.
Al-Shehab was detained during a family vacation on Jan. 15, 2021, just days before she planned to return to the United Kingdom. She is a member of Saudi Arabia’s Shiite Muslim minority, which has long complained of systematic discrimination in the Sunni-ruled kingdom.
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