A woman from the United States, who was living in Saudi for two years was taken into custody after her tweet about being stuck in the region got viral. The woman was released on Wednesday.
An American woman named Carly Morris, 34, travelled to Saudi Arabia in 2019 so her Saudi-American daughter could see her paternal grandfather. The woman, who divorced her spouse years back, had tweeted recently that they were trapped in the country for two years and wanted a way out.
Saudi Arabia takes social media posts against its authoritative government very seriously. The authorities in the country have detained people putting up posts or tweets against the ruling government or strict laws.
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According to Freedom Initiative, a United States-based advocacy group, the American woman, Carly Morris, was taken into custody earlier this week after her social media post came under the radar.
The post detailed the account of her efforts to leave the country with her young daughter and how everything she tried went in vain as she was trapped for two years now.
Morris was summoned earlier this week and eventually taken into custody by authorities in north-central Buraidah, according to reports.
The group says that Morris was shackled in front of her daughter and was questioned about her tweets in custody. She was also thoroughly questioned about the contacts she made with international organisations and human rights groups to help her get out of Saudi.
In 2019, Morris arrived in Saudi Arabia with her eight-year-old daughter to make the latter meet the family of her ex-spouse. What was intended to be a short stay proved to be a nightmare for Morris because she still hasn't been able to get back to the States with her kid.
Morris, who has been facing Saudi's stringent laws on male guardianship in her efforts to leave with her kid, has now been banned from leaving the country under one of its widely imposed travel bans, barring her from leaving the kingdom.
While Human rights groups in America are concerned in this matter and are working their way to bring the woman and her daughter back to the States, Saudi laws are prohibiting any kind of movement for the woman.
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