8 hours agoReleased activist after 4 years of detention in Saudi Arabia, never met with her children
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(a year ago)Saudi Arabia has released Salma al-Shehab, an activist who was convicted of posting criticals to the government and was held in custody for more than four years, human rights groups said. With about 2,600 X followers, Salma al-Shehab, which comes from the Shiite minority, regularly posted messages in [...]
Saudi Arabia has released Salma al-Shehab, an activist who was convicted of posting criticals to the government and was held in custody for more than four years, human rights groups said.
With about 2,600 followers in X, Salma al-Shehab, who comes from the Shiite minority, regularly posted messages in support of women's rights in Saudi ultra-conservative Arabia.
Saudi authorities have released activist and doctor Salma al-Shehab after four years of arbitrary ban on her commitment to peace”, human rights organisation A reported on Saturday in X London-based LQST.
“We call on authorities to grant it full freedom, including the right to travel to attend its doctorate at Leeds University in the United Kingdom, the organisation added.
According to Lena al-Hathloul, communications manager A LQST, “Salma al-Shehab has spent a difficult period in custody and has not seen her two young children throughout this period. ”
In 2022, Salmam mother of two was first sentenced to six years in prison for assistance “which seeks to disrupt public order” and to “the spread of false news” before her sentence was added by an appeal court, which sentenced her to 34 years in prison. The sentence was then reduced to 27 and later to four years, including stopping the trip. /abcnews. al
