A Saudi university student has been sentenced to 34 years in prison for tweeting “rumors” and retweeting Saudi dissidents. Salma al-Shehab was detained when she was traveling to the kingdom to visit her family last year. The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports on how the Saudi government uses Twitter and social media to crack down on dissent.
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