US citizen got 16 years in Saudi Arabian prison for tweets, his son says

A US citizen who traveled to Saudi Arabia to visit family reportedly received a 16-year prison sentence for posting tweets critical of the Saudi government. The sentence was imposed on 72-year-old Saad Ibrahim Almadi, according to his son, Ibrahim Almadi.

Ibrahim Almadi spoke to several news organizations about the sentence imposed on his father, who reportedly holds both US and Saudi citizenship and has lived in the US since the 1970s. He alleges that his father was tortured in Saudi prison and that the US State Department mishandled the case. The punishment is due to tweets that expressed "mild opinions about the government," his son said.

President Biden "sold my father for oil," Ibrahim Almadi told the New York Post. "Biden just cares about votes. He doesn't care about my father, he doesn't care about American citizens." (Almadi also said he is a Democrat who voted for Biden.)