The son of a Florida retiree says Saudi Arabia has forced his father to take steps to renounce his American citizenship after jailing him over social media posts critical of the kingdom’s crown prince.
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Ibrahim Almadi holds a photo of his father Saad Almadi graduating from college in 1984, in Washington Monday, Dec. 23, 2024. Saad Almadi, a dual U.S.-Saudi citizen was jailed for social media posts critical of the kingdom's crown prince. He was released from a Saudi prison in March 2023 and banned from returning to his home in south Florida.
“It’s all because we don’t want to upset our ally’s feelings,” he said in an interview from Washington. “If this were Russia, Iran or North Korea, he would’ve been declared wrongfully detained months ago.” A retired project manager who immigrated to the U.S. in the 1970s, Almadi was arrested in Saudi Arabia in 2021, when he arrived on a planned two-week visit to see family. Saudi officials confronted him with tweets he had posted over the past several years in the U.S., including one about Khashoggi’s killing and another on the crown prince’s consolidation of power.
By law, Americans seeking to relinquish their citizenship must follow a lengthy process, and U.S. officials must deem their actions voluntary. That had not happened in Almadi’s case, the State Department said, adding that he remains a U.S. citizen and receives consular support. It’s unclear how Trump’s presidency will affect the handling of such cases, but his relations with Saudi leaders run deep.apartment building in the coastal city of Jeddah. And a private equity firm controlled by Trump’s son-in-law and former White House adviser Jared KushnerTwo weeks after the U.S. election, Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk were spotted sitting alongside the head of the wealth fund at a UFC fight in New York City’s Madison Square Garden.
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