Saudi Spying Inside Twitter Led to Torture & Jailing of Saudi Man Who Ran Satirical Account
August 12, 2022
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as posted by the channelA jury in California has convicted a former worker at Twitter of spying for Saudi Arabia by providing the kingdom private information about Saudi dissidents. The spying effort led to the arrest, torture and jailing of Abdulrahman al-Sadhan, who ran an anonymous satirical Twitter account. His sister, Areej al-Sadhan, and the lawyer for the family, Jim Walden, are calling on the Biden administration to push for his release. "The brutality of the Saudi officials have no limits," says Areej al-Sadhan. "Twitter and other social media companies have more than a little responsibility for what's happening, not just with respect to Abdulrahman's case and the case of other disappeared Saudi human rights activists and outspoken dissidents, but across a much broader array of misconduct," says Walden.
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