Reprieve has written to the Foreign Office urging the government to update its travel advice to Saudi Arabia so that British nationals are fully informed of the risks to their safety should they visit the country, reports the Daily Mail.
The warning comes as British father Ahmed Al-Doush was abducted at Riyadh airport at the end of August last year, separated from his family, faced the death penalty, and was eventually sentenced to ten years in prison over his social media posts.
“Saudi Arabia is investing $800 billion to transform their tourism sector and attract more visitors, yet few will be aware that an old, deleted social media post could lead to them being abducted and potentially sentenced to death,” the letter says.Â
“The FCDO does update travel advice – it recently updated the travel advice for the USA to highlight the risk of detention at the border.”
Ahmed’s wife Amaher Nour has called on Britons considering travelling to Saudi Arabia to “think hard about whether it’s worth the risk.”
“For as long as the UK Government fails to warn Britons of the dangers of travelling to Saudi Arabia, and fails to stand up for its citizens arbitrarily detained abroad, other families like ours are at risk of being torn apart,” she said.
