Saudi Arabia released a dual Saudi-U.S. citizen on Tuesday. He was held in prison for more than a year for tweeting things critical of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman while living in the United States.
Saad Ibrahim Almadi, 72, was arrested while visiting family in Saudi Arabia in 2021 for tweets that he posted over the span of seven years. He made the tweets while living in Florida.He was sentenced to 19 years in prison for the tweets, which the government claimed constituted terrorism, his son Ibrahim Asaid told the Associated Press.
“He considers the United States home, not Saudi,” Ibrahim Asaid told NBC News of his father."[But] he needs immediate medical treatment and attention in the United States. For that [reason], the travel ban is quite concerning to us." Almadi's tweets included one noting the crown prince's consolidation of power in the kingdom and another that remarked on Khashoggi’s killing.
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