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Following an appeal at the Specialized Criminal Court (SCC) on 9 August 2022, a judge raised her sentence to 34 years in prison after a grossly unfair trial, to be followed by a 34-year travel ban from the date of her release.\u00a0A few weeks after,Nourah bint Saeed al-Qahtani was convicted\u00a0to 45 years in prison by\u00a0the SCC\u2019s Appellate Division for \u201cusing the internet to tear the social fabric\u201d and \u201cviolating the public order by using social media\u201d, according to a court document received by rights group Democracy for the Arab World Now (<a href=\"https:\/\/dawnmena.org\/saudi-arabia-appellate-court-increases-womans-prison-sentence-for-tweeting-from-13-to-45-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Dawn<\/strong><\/a>),\u00a0making it the harshest sentence ever issued against a women\u2019s rights activist in the kingdom.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Al-Shehab and\u00a0al-Qahtani\u00a0should have never been detained in the first place.\u00a0These alleged acts upon which the charges against her were based are in no way recognisable criminal offences under international human rights law. 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It further dramatically demonstrates that the Saudi regime\u2019s ambitious claims of reform are purely rhetoric and part of a smokescreen strategy used to cover the real face of an escalating and systematic campaign of repression against prominent human rights defenders, women activists, lawyers, journalists, writers and bloggers that has intensified since Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman came to power in June 2017.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>It is way past time for the international community, and the European Union in particular, to reconsider, at a fundamental level, their relationship with a leadership whose behaviour resembles that of a rogue regime. 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