Saudi Arabia increases US citizen’s sentence to 19 years over tweets
An appeals court in Saudi Arabia has increased the prison sentence of US citizen Saad Al-Madi over a series of political tweets from 16 years to 19 years, his son Ibrahim has revealed. According to the New York Post, a State Department official informed Ibrahim of the decision after the White House publicly condemned his father's detention after he was jailed in October 2022 over allegedly criticising the government in 14 tweets, the […]
