The Saudi woman who was sentenced to 34 years in prison for her activity on the social network Twitter may have been reported to the Saudi authorities through an application, reports The Guardian. It is a Saudi crime reporting app called Kollona Amn (We are all security) and can be downloaded for Apple and Android phones. The app also has a Twitter account and is described on official Saudi websites as an app that “allows citizens and expatriates to submit criminal and security reports related to attacks on personal life, threats, forgery, extortion, hacking in social network accounts. , defamation, fraud and criminal offenses and security whistleblowers.
Salma al-Shehab is a Saudi Arabian mother of two young children (ages six and four), 33 years old, and a PhD student at the University of Leeds, UK. This Monday, August 15, she was sentenced to 34 years in prison in Saudi Arabia for her activity on the social network Twitter, mainly for following and sharing content from activists and dissidents.
Saudi Arabia. Student sentenced to 34 years in prison for activity on Twitter
In October 2019, Salma al-Shehab responded to a tweet announcing the creation of a new bus network with a tweet containing the word “Finally!” According to The Guardian, a review of Salma al-Shehab’s Twitter account shows that a person with a Saudi account reported her on November 15, 2020. The user in question told Salma that he had reported her on the Saudi app. . It is unknown if the country’s authorities responded directly to the complaint. But the woman was arrested two months later.
The Guardian asked Apple and Google if they would reconsider access to the app, after the Shehab case, but got no response.
Source: Observadora
