Rights group
Amnesty International has condemned a
Saudi court decision to jail an
activist for seven years, labelling the charges as "spurious" and urging that the sentence be quashed. A court in Riyadh passed the sentence on Fowzan al-Harbi on Tuesday and also banned him from travelling for a further seven years,
Amnesty said in a statement. "Harbi has been ruthlessly targeted for daring to question the
Saudi authorities? human
rights record," said Said Boumedouha, Amnesty's deputy director of the Middle East and **rth Africa Programme. Harbi, 36, is a founder of the local
Saudi Civil and Political
rights Association (ACPRA), and was jailed in December 2013, when a judge ordered his arrest without providing a reason, according to Amnesty.
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