The State Department in Washington confirms that Saad Ibrahim Almadi, an American citizen of Saudi Arabian origin, has been imprisoned. The US took up his case in December last year and again as late as Monday this week. – We have consistently and intensively raised our concerns related to the case, at the highest level in the Saudi Arabian government, both via channels in Riyadh and Washington, says the ministry’s spokesman Vedant Patel. – The exercise of freedom of expression should never be criminalised, he says. The Washington Post writes that Almadi, who lives in Florida, had traveled to Saudi Arabia to visit family in November last year. He was arrested at the airport when he arrived. 16 years in prison + 16-year travel ban Crown Prince, and now also Prime Minister, Mohammed bin Salman has been identified as the one who gave the order for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. Photo: Reuters His son Ibrahim tells the newspaper that his father, who is now 72 years old, was sentenced on 3 October. The case is linked to 14 messages he had written on Twitter in the previous seven years. He must serve 16 years in prison in Saudi Arabia, and has been banned from traveling for 16 years after that, according to the court decision. The son says the father had voiced only mild criticism by expressing his views on corruption in Saudi Arabia and Jamal Khashoggi, who was killed and dismembered in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul in 2018. Almadi was charged in part with supporting and finance terror and to try to destabilize the kingdom, the zone states.
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