On Wednesday, a Saudi court upheld the 20-year prison term of a Saudi aid worker, Abdulrahman al-Sadhan, who had criticized the government on Twitter, drawing a rare public rebuke from the US State Department. Host Marco Werman speaks with Abdulrahman al-Sadhan’s sister, Areej al-Sadhan, a dual Saudi-US citizen, about her family’s reaction to the verdict.
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