Saudi Arabian Woman Gets 45 Years in Prison for Sharing Opinions Online: Human Rights Advocates

Saudi Arabian Woman Gets 45 Years in Prison for Sharing Opinions Online: Human Rights Advocates
Saudi women cross a street in Hofuf, Saudi Arabia, on Nov. 22, 2007. Hassan Ammar/AFP/Getty Images
Katabella Roberts
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A Saudi Arabian woman has been sentenced to almost half a century in prison for sharing her opinions online, a human rights organization reports.

Nourah bint Saeed al-Qahtani was sentenced to 45 years in prison in August by the Appellate Division of the Specialized Criminal Court in Saudi Arabia, according to Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), which cited court documents.
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