{"id":61898,"date":"2023-05-07T22:44:54","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T22:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=61898"},"modified":"2023-05-07T22:44:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T22:44:54","slug":"saudi-arabia-frees-us-citizen-jailed-for-critical-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=61898","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia frees US citizen jailed for critical tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A US citizen sentenced to 19 years in a Saudi prison for social media posts criticising the kingdom\u2019s rulers has been released, his son told AFP today.<\/p>\n<p>Saad Ibrahim Almadi, a 72-year-old of Saudi origin, was arrested in 2021 for what his son, Ibrahim, described as \u201cmild\u201d Twitter posts on topics including the war in Yemen and the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themalaysianinsight.com\/s\/434060\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US citizen sentenced to 19 years in a Saudi prison for social media posts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ksa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","chromenews-featured":"","chromenews-large":"","chromenews-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=27\" rel=\"category\">Saudi Arabia<\/a>","tag_info":"Saudi Arabia","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}