(CNN) — 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 tweets critical of the Saudi government in 2022. He was released in 2023 but remained in Riyadh under a travel ban . His son insisted at the time that his father

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