Saudi Arabia has imprisoned one of its royals for 30 years for phone conversations he had as a student in Boston, court documents obtained by the AP show. The FBI says Saudi Arabia is spying on and striking out at Saudis on U.S. soil.
Freedom House, a research and advocacy group, says Saudi Arabia has targeted critics in 14 countries, including targeting coordinated and run from the United States. The aim is to spy on Saudis and intimidate them, or compel them to return to the kingdom, the group says.“It’s disturbing, it’s terrifying, and it’s a major violation of protected speech,” Freedom House’s Nate Schenkkan said of the recent imprisonments of Western-based Saudis.
Saudi courts sentenced him to 20 years in prison and a subsequent 20-year travel ban. A Saudi court in August lengthened the term by 10 years., Saudi Arabia accused Prince Abdullah of acting to destabilize the kingdom, disturb social unity and support the kingdom’s opponents.— applied in cases involving phone or computer communication — to issue unusually tough sentences.
Investigations by the Citizen Lab research group, media organizations and Amnesty International alleged Saudi Arabia uses military-grade Israeli spyware. Amnesty said theJamal Khashoggi’s fiancee before Saudi officials killed him in 2018. Federal prosecutors recently brought two of the first cases over Saudi spying and harassment of its nationals in the United States.who prosecutors said was accessing private data of Twitter users, including critics of the Saudi government.
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