Riyadh: A Saudi Arabian court on Wednesday sentenced a woman to 45 years in prison for allegedly harming the country through her social media activity, the second such case this month.
Nourah bint Saeed al-Qahtani, who hails from one of the biggest tribes in Saudi Arabia and has no apparent history of activism, was sentenced to prison to almost half a century in prison after the judge accused her of “disrupting the cohesion of society” and “destabilizing the social fabric” via social media, Fox News reported.
The judge also ruled that al-Qahtani “offended the public order through the information network.”
It remains unclear what al-Qahtani post- ed online or where her hearing was held.
She was taken into custody on July 4, 202 1, according to Fox News citing Washington based human rights watchdog Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), which is critical of the kingdom.
