Salma al-Shehab: Concern for Saudi student jailed for 34 years over tweets
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./ Salma al-Shehab, 34, a Saudi citizen and mother of two, was arrested in 2021 while on holiday in the kingdom./ Before the trip she had called for reforms and the release of activists./ 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./ A terrorism tribunal convicted Shebab of aiding dissidents seeking ...
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