{"id":23090,"date":"2022-08-18T06:03:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T10:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=23090"},"modified":"2022-08-18T06:03:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T10:03:22","slug":"salma-al-shehab-concern-for-saudi-student-jailed-for-34-years-over-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2022\/08\/18\/salma-al-shehab-concern-for-saudi-student-jailed-for-34-years-over-tweets\/","title":{"rendered":"Salma al-Shehab: Concern for Saudi student jailed for 34 years over tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Leeds University has expressed deep concern for one of its PhD students who has been jailed for 34 years in Saudi Arabia over critical tweets.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Salma al-Shehab, 34, a Saudi citizen and mother of two, was arrested in 2021 while on holiday in the kingdom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Before the trip she had called for reforms and the release of activists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Human rights groups said the harsh sentence gave the lie to Saudi claims it was improving women’s rights and showed the situation was getting worse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A terrorism tribunal convicted Shebab of aiding dissidents seeking to “disrupt public order” and publishing “false rumours”, they said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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They warned that it was “the longest prison sentence ever for a peaceful activist” in the Gulf state, where Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has overseen a crackdown on dissent for five years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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