Saad Ibrahim Almad, a dual US-Saudi national has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for criticizing the Saudi regime on Twitter.
In November 2021, the 72-year-old was arrested upon landing in Riyadh, the capital city of Saudi Arabia, and been detained for 11 months without a trial.
While living in Florida for a period of seven-years, Almad published 14 tweets, including references to Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018.
He was convicted of harboring a terrorist ideology and for trying to destabilize the kingdom, and sentenced to 16 years in prison followed by an additional 16 years of house arrest.
In January 2021, Salma al-Shehab, a Saudi student attending Leeds University in the UK, was sentenced to 34 years in prison for following and retweeting dissidents and activists.
