WASHINGTON — Saudi Arabia has released a 72-year-old US citizen imprisoned for more than a year over tweets critical of the Saudi government, his son told Al-Monitor early Tuesday.
Saad Ibrahim Almadi, a retired project manager from Florida who also holds Saudi citizenship, faced 19 years behind bars for tweets he wrote while in the United States. His son, Ibrahim Almadi, said Tuesday that all charges against his father were dropped, but that he remains in Riyadh with family under a travel ban imposed as part of his original sentence.
