A British father with a paltry 37 social media followers has been sentenced to ten years in jail for posting a tweet.
Ahmed al-Doush, a senior business analyst at Bank of America, had lived in Manchester with his wife and children before the day of his arrest by Saudi Arabian police.
Plain clothes officers detained the Sudan-born father of four as he prepared to fly home to the UK from King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on August 31 last year with his family, The Guardian reported.
He was subsequently held in a maximum security prison under the country's strict anti-terrorism laws, on charges that included criticising the government on social media and associating with a London-based Saudi dissident.
The analyst, who lives with a chronic thyroid condition and back injury, was put in solitary confinement for 33 days after his arrest and denied consular assistance as well as access to legal representation for more than two months.