An expatriate man has been sentenced to 16 years in prison in Iran for tweets he posted while in the United States.
72-year-old Saad Ibrahim Almadi (pictured) was a retired project officer who lived in Florida, USA. He is originally from Saudi Arabia. He has citizenship of both USA and Saudi Arabia.
In this situation, Ibrahim Almadi, who went to Saudi Arabia to meet his relatives, was arrested by the country’s police last November.
The Washington Post reported that he was arrested in connection with his Twitter posts against the Saudi government while he was in the United States, tortured in prison and sentenced to 16 years in prison by the court this month.
This has now been confirmed by Almadi’s son Ibrahim and US State Department officials.
Regarding this, the spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs said that they are talking to Saudi Arabia about the arrest of Almadi and the prison sentence imposed on him.