A British citizen faces the prospect of an extended prison sentence after being detained in Saudi Arabia last August over a now-deleted Tweet.
Ahmed al-Doush, a senior business analyst at Bank of America, lives in Manchester with his wife and children.
He was arrested by plain clothes security while preparing to fly home to the UK from King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on 31 August last year with his family, The Guardian reported.
The case has been discussed between the UK foreign secretary David Lammy and his Saudi counterpart, Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah, although details of the call were not revealed.
The Sudan-born father-of-four has not even met his baby son Youssef, after missing the birth in December due to his detention.
