U.S. says it raised concerns with Riyadh over jailed U.S. citizen as recently as Monday

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has raised with Saudi authorities the case of a Saudi-U.S. citizen detained in Saudi Arabia as recently as Monday, State Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel said on Tuesday.

Speaking at a daily press briefing, Patel said the Saudi government offered no information in advance of the sentencing hearing of Saad Ibrahim Almadi, who the Washington Post said was handed a 16-year jail sentence over his tweets critical of Riyadh.

(Reporting by Daphne Psaledakis and Humeyra Pamuk; Editing by Chris Reese)

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