Nourah al-Qahtani was convicted of 'violating public order using social media', activists say.
Abdullah Alaoudh, director of research for the Gulf region at Dawn,
Several other female activists have reportedly been detained in relation to social media posts since last year. Mr Alaoudh said he feared that they could also be handed lengthy prison sentences. Mr Alaoudh warned that it was "impossible not to connect the dots" between US President Joe Biden's controversial meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed in Jeddah last month and "the uptick in the repressive attacks".ALQST, a UK-based rights group, also expressed grave concern about Qahtani's sentence"As feared, we are witnessing an alarming deterioration of the human rights situation in Saudi Arabia," it added.
She was arrested while on holiday in Saudi Arabia in January 2021, and was found guilty of "providing succour to those seeking to disrupt public order" and "publishing false and tendentious rumours".
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