Son of US citizen held in Saudi Arabia says Trump administration secured his father’s return home

In this photo provided by Ibrahim Almadi, Saad Ibrahim Almadi sits in a restaurant in an unidentified place, in the United States, on August 2021. Ibrahim Almadi/AP/File

The son of a United States citizen held in Saudi Arabia for criticizing the Saudi government said Wednesday the Trump administration secured his father’s release and thanked US officials for helping bring him home.

“They really delivered when it comes to my father’s situation. I understand Saudi Arabia is supposed to be our ally regime to us, but they’ve been mistreating us for a while now. And finally, they are correcting the course when it comes to my father’s situation,” Ibrahim Almadi told CNN’s Erin Burnett on “OutFront.”

His father, Saad Ibrahim Almadi, a US-Saudi dual national, was given a 16-year sentence for