Riyadh: A woman from Saudi Arabia found it very expensive to run a social networking site on Twitter. In fact, a Court of Saudi Arabia has sentenced a woman to 34 years in prison for Tweeting. The name of this Saudi woman studying at the University of Leeds in Britain is Salma al-Shahab, who has two children. The allegations against her say that she is assisting activists to create public unrest in the country.
Salma has 2,600 followers on Twitter. She often wrote about the rights of Muslim women in the Sunni country. Salma also gave a befitting reply to the conservative thinking of Muslim countries. She followed many activists. Used to retweet issues related to women's rights. Just because of this, Salma became a criminal in this Muslim country. Salma was arrested when she came to Saudi Arabia on a vacation from the UK in 2021. In June 2021, he was sentenced to 6 years in prison. Out of which 3 years imprisonment was suspended and her travel to another country was also banned.
But now this punishment has been made more stringent. According to court documents, Salma al-Shahab was sentenced by the Saudi Appeals Court on August 9 for disturbing public order in the province and helping dissidents. Under the punishment, she banned foreign travel for 34 years. However, Salma's sentence has been condemned by the ALQST. ALQST is a rights group based in London. Who has said on this decision of the Saudi court that the peaceful activist was sentenced for such a long sentence for the first time. ALQST's communications president Leena al-Hathloul has said 'Such horrific punishment makes a mockery of the Saudi authorities in the improvement of women and legal systems.'
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