At least 15 journalists held arbitrarily in Saudi crackdown

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the release of around 15 Saudi journalists and citizen-journalists who have gone “missing” in a wave of arrests that began last September. They include Saleh Al-Shehi, a journalist who was sentenced yesterday to five years in prison on a charge of insulting the royal court. Al-Shehi’s arrest was not official until yesterday’s announcement of his sentence, which includes a five-year ban on leaving the country on comp

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