Al-Sadhan
Al-Sadhan v. Twitter Inc.
Opinion
trial_court Opinion
1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 AREEJ AL-SADHAN, et al., Case No. 23-cv-02369-EMC
8 Plaintiffs,
MOTION TO DISMISS PLAINTIFFS’
9 v. FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT
10 TWITTER INC., et al., Docket No. 45 11 Defendants.
12 13 I. INTRODUCTION 14 Plaintiff Abdulrahman Al-Sadhan resided and studied in the U.S. for several years. He 15 operated an anonymous X Corporation (“X”) account which was critical of the Kingdom of Saudi 16 Arabia (“KSA”). Mr. Al-Sadhan was kidnapped, tortured, and imprisoned in Saudi Arabia by the 17 KSA government and its agents. Plaintiffs allege that, though Mr. Al-Sadhan operated an 18 anonymous X account, the KSA was able to locate him because X conspired with KSA informants 19 to transmit confidential user information to the KSA for the purpose of their silencing political 20 dissidents in violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) and the 21 Alien Tort Statute (ATS). Mr. Al-Sadhan’s sister is Plaintiff Areej Al-Sadhan. …