Saudi woman jailed for 34 years for using Twitter

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A US-based human rights group says that a terrorism court in Saudi Arabia has jailed a women's rights activist for 34 years over comments she posted on Twitter calling for reform inside the Kingdom. The Freedom Initiative says Salma al-Shehab's sentence is the longest given to a women's rights advocate in the country. Bethany Alhaidari is the Saudi case manager from the Freedom Initiative and she told Newshour's Razia Iqbal more about Ms al-Shehab, a PhD student at Leeds University. (Photo shows a still image of Salma al-Shehab from an interview she gave in 2014 at the Riyadh International Book Fair. Credit: Abdul Rahman Al-Saad/YouTube)