The Fourth Anniversary of the Arrest of Tweeter Dawood Al-Ali: A Call for Release and an End to Arbitrary Detention

These days mark the fourth anniversary of the arrest of Dawood Al-Ali, who was detained by Saudi authorities in December 2020 over tweets he posted on the X platform (formerly Twitter) expressing his rejection of normalization with the Israeli entity.

The Saudi judiciary handed down a harsh sentence of 25 years in prison against him for these tweets.

human rights organization SANAD calls on the Saudi authorities to immediately release Dawood Al-Ali and compensate him for the harm he has suffered as a result of this arbitrary detention. The organization stresses that the continuation of such violations undermines freedom of expression and reflects a dire human rights situation.