A Saudi Women’s rights campaigner, has been sentenced to 34 years in jail for tweeting

33 year old Salma al-Shehab has been charged with disrupting “public order” and undermining “the safety of the general public and stability of the state.”

According to some reports, she did not make her own tweet, but was following & retweeting accounts critical of Saudi Arabia.

She has been sentenced to 34 years in prison, followed by a 34 year travel ban.

The United States is now studying the case to determine its validity and fairness.

Al-Shehab was a student at Leeds University in the UK, when she was arrested in 2021.

She says she has been subject to solitary confinement and the investigation has kept her from contact with her two young children.

Her sister, an activist as well, says this is a “mockery of the Saudi authorities claims of reforms for women”, adding “they remain hellbent on harshly punishing anyone who expresses their opinions.”

In a fight against the effects of climate change, China has begun cloud seeding

China is seeding clouds in its famous Yangtze River, in an attempt to fight the drought.

Planes have been shooting silver iodide rods into the sky, to trigger more rainfall.

Because of crippling climate change, and record heatwaves, the river had completely dried up in parts.

The Ministry of Water resources says the dry spell in the river is “adversely affecting drinking water security of rural people,” livestock and crops.

The pen-sized rods work by forming ice crystals in existing clouds to produce more rain.

Cloud seeding is a common practice in the country but some experts are concerned about its unnatural impact on the earths atmosphere.

The former chief financial officer of the Trump Organisation is expected to plead guilty to tax fraud

Allen Weisselberg is a long-time ally of Trump and is in talks to plead to the indictment.

Originally facing up to 15 years in prison, this new deal will see the former CFO instead receive a five-year sentence and to serve just 100 days behind bars.

Weisselberg will not sign up as a cooperator to the 15-year tax fraud scheme, but will testify at trial.

The Trump Organisation has been charged with 10 counts and Weisselberg with 15.

It all relates back to an alleged scheme in 2005, wherby Trump executives were compensated ‘off the books.’

Prosecutors allege the former CFO failed to pay taxes on $1.7 million in income.