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The Latest Breaking News from Leeds University

Plea for Liz Truss to act after Saudis jail UK student for 34 years over Twitter use

Britain has a duty to speak out over mother who tweeted on women’s rights, foreign secretary told

The Guardian - UK

Imprisoned Saudi activist Salma al-Shehab ‘reported on app’

PhD student Salma al-Shehab received the longest-known sentence for a Saudi activist on Monday.

Al Jazeera

Saudi doctoral student gets 34 years in prison for tweets

A Saudi court has sentenced a doctoral student and women’s rights advocate to 34 years in prison for spreading “rumors” on Twitter and retweeting dissidents

The Independent UK

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Leeds university student jailed for 34 years in Saudi Arabia for Twitter account

Salma al-Shehab has been jailed for more than three decades for retweeting posts calling for women's rights on Twitter

Leeds Live

Saudi woman given 34-year prison sentence for using Twitter

Salma al-Shehab, a Leeds University student, was charged with following and retweeting dissidents and activists

The Guardian - UK

John Forster obituary

The Guardian - UK

University staff who can’t afford to eat ask for campus food banks

Young academics and support workers are on the breadline as the cost of living crisis bites

The Guardian - UK

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William and Kate hire high-flying Leeds University graduate as new PR chief

Lee Thompson has represented Great Britain as a triathlete and has been lured away from his job at a US network

Leeds Live

'Workouts become harder if you break good exercise habit due to crucial protein'

New research from Leeds University shows a vital protein in the body could play an important part in helping us hit our fitness goals, says Dr Miriam Stoppard

Daily Mirror

Still whanging? Dialect hunt aims to update prized English language archive

Leeds University shares library of 1950s vernacular and launches project to preserve today’s phrases

The Guardian - UK

Huge climate change protest to be held in Leeds on Friday

'There is never going to be a better time than now'

Leeds Live

Leeds student trying to help Ukrainian relatives escape caught in UK visa rules chaos

Volodymyr Chapman, a student at Leeds University, travelled to Poland to help his cousin Yulii Volovnikova, who described waking up on the morning of Russia's invasion of Ukraine to the sound of explosions

Leeds Live

Leeds University professor accused of 'pro-Putinist propaganda' hits back at government ministers

Tory MP Robert Halfon says some university professors are spreading Kremlin 'lies'

Leeds Live

University adds content warnings to classic children's tales

Dozens of titles, including Tarzan, Robinson Crusoe and Black Beauty, have been given "warnings" in case of offending undergraduates at Leeds University

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'How getting your 5 fruit and veg a day can keep hip fractures at bay'

Researchers at Leeds University have concluded that many dietary factors have the potential to reduce or heighten the risk of sustaining a hip fracture

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