Saudi women recall attempts by state-linked harasser to lure them on Instagram

The women who live in the US tell MEE of ways an account allegedly used by Saudi Arabian man arrested by FBI attempted to gain their trustSaudi Arabian student used an anonymous Instagram account to threaten Saudi dissidents in the US and Canada, a legal complaint filed in a federal court says (AFP) Two Saudi Arabian women living in the United States have described how an anonymous Instagram user attempted to gain their trust, a week after the Saudi Arabian man who prosecutors say ran the account was arrested in Virginia. One of the women said the account @samar16490 offered to give her documents that would help her in a multi-million dollar lawsuit a fellow Saudi Arabian citizen has brought against her – but only if they met in person. A second woman said the same account sent her a photo of her grandfather in an effort, she believes, to coax her into disclosing where she was living. Both women told MEE that, given the demonstrated reach of the Saudi government abroad in recent years, they already felt unsafe in the US Their stories provide new and chilling details about an alleged campaign of harassment that was broadly outlined in…
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