Activists say that a doctoral student can

Activists said that a Saudi doctoral student at the University of Leeds had been released from prison in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia after her decrease in critical social media activity.

Salma was arrested, the mother of two children, 36 years old, in 2021 during a holiday in the Kingdom of the Gulf.

She was later imprisoned by a six -year terrorist court on the basis of “annoying” disturbing public order “and” destabilizing the social fabric “over jobs that call for reforms and the release of activists.

The ruling was increased to 34 years before it was reduced twice at the appeal – first to 27 years and then to four years with an additional four -year suspension. There was no immediate confirmation by the Saudi authorities.

The release of youth was reported for the first time by Alqst, a Saudi -based Saudi group, which she said had been subjected to “four years of arbitrary prison on the basis of its peaceful activity.”

“It must now be granted full freedom, including the right to travel to complete her studies at the University of Leeds,” he added.

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the actual ruler in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, supervised a large -scale campaign against the opposition over the past eight years, with peaceful critics on social media that handed over the prolonged prison sentence or even the death penalty after the trials made by the terrorism trial that Right groups are concerned with rights groups say unfair.

Youth, dental health specialist and medical teacher who was in the last year of her studies at the University of Leeds Medical College, published or published several messages calling for reforms and release of prominent activists, clerics and other intellectuals before traveling to the Kingdom five years ago.

One of the centers “Prisoners of Conscience” praised a group of prominent women’s rights activists who were seized before a ban on women in 2018 and later convicted of crimes against the state.

Dana Ahmed, Middle East researcher at Amnesty International, said that Shihab was convicted of terrorism “just because she was tweeting to support women’s rights and restored Saudi women’s rights activists.”

She added: “Although today is a day to celebrate the release of Salma, it is also an opportunity to think about many others who spend prolonged sentences in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for their activities via the Internet.”

“This includes other women such as Manahil Al -Utaybi and Noura Al -Qahtani, who were imprisoned because of their talk about women’s rights, and Abdul Rahman imprisoned for 20 years due to satirical tweets.”

BBC called the Saudi Foreign Ministry and Leeds University to comment.