Saudi Arabia frees American imprisoned over critical tweets

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Saudi Arabia freed an American citizen, a 72-year-old Florida retiree, it had imprisoned for more than a year over his old tweets critical of the kingdom's crown prince, his son said. He was sentenced last year to 16 years in prison for tweets he posted while in the US. Mr Almadi was found guilty by a Saudi court of trying to destabilise the kingdom and of supporting and funding terrorism.

Published 3 months ago · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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