Saudi Woman given jail sentence for social media 'violations', says rights group

 

Another Saudi Arabian woman has been sentenced to decades in prison by the kingdom's terrorism court for using social media to "violate the public order", according to court documents seen by a human rights group.

Nourah bint Saeed al-Qahtani was sentenced to 45 years in prison after a specialized criminal court convicted her of "using the internet to tear Saudi Arabia's social fabric", according to documents that were obtained and reviewed by Democracy for the Arab World Now (Dawn), an organization founded by Jamal Khashoggi.

Full article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/30/saudi-woman-given-jail-sentence-for-social-media-use-says-human-rights-group  

Opinion

I would relate this news to the Sharing the planet topic because we can clearly see a conflict and a violation of human rights.

When I started reading this article and saw the number of years of sentence, it blows my mind. I cannot believe how posting some tweets or saying something on social media can cost you half of your life rotting in some prison in the Middle East, I just do not get it. I believe that everyone has the right to say or think whatever they want.

Likewise, I also think that if the one who wrote those tweets was a man, the sentence would be a lot less, and this is another thing to talk about. In Arabia Saudi is not the easiest to be a woman. This country is heavily segregated by gender and is infamous for its restrictions on women's rights and freedom. 

In recent years there have been many improvements on this topic, however, there is still a lot to do.