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International Law,
Data Privacy

Jul. 26, 2022

Nonprofit that helped Saudis visit Twitter worker is government entity, witness testified

The Misk Foundation, “was certainly very connected to the agenda of [Crown Prince] Mohammed Bin Salman for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,” said Kristen Diwan, a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute.

A nonprofit foundation the U.S. government says Saudi officials used to solicit private information about dissidents from a former Twitter employee was “very connected” to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a Gulf States scholar told a San Francisco jury Monday.

Kristen Diwan, a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, D.C., testified as an expert on behalf of the government. The Misk Foundation, “was certainly ver...

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