A father of four from Manchester has been reportedly jailed for ten years in Saudi Arabia for posting a tweet about a critic of the regime
According to Amnesty International Saudi authorities arrested Ahmed al-Doush, a senior business analyst with Bank of America, as he was departing back home on 31 August 2024 at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh.
He was returning to the UK after visiting Saudi Arabia with his wife and children. He was held incommunicado and reportedly in solitary confinement for 33 days after his arrest and was denied UK consular assistance and access to legal representation for over two months.
He told his family that he has been informed that the charges against him are in relation to a deleted social media post and his alleged association with a Saudi critic in exile, with whom he has no relationship beyond knowing his son.
