Saudi Arabia: Man Sentenced to Death for Tweets

https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/08/29/saudi-arabia-man-sentenced-death-tweets

Al-Ghamdi’s death sentence is the latest and most severe in a series of cases in which Saudi authorities have targeted social media users for peaceful expression online. Over the past year, Saudi courts have convicted and imposed decades-long sentences on social media users who criticized the government.

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gusVLZ@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 2y

This is beyond insanity, I wonder why there's international organizations if stuff like this happens worldwide quite often

comrade19@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y

What the f*ck is wrong with them

Mr_wright808@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y

I hope this starts a viral internet trend where everyone just relentlessly starts talking shit about saudi arabia

Mrkawfee@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y (1 reply)

All that money Bonesaw is spending on laundering the reputation of Saudi Arabia and then something like this or machine gunning refugees goes and ruins it.

impiri@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y

You just have to balance it with enough golf or wrestling that the audience builds up a tolerance for it

MisterD@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 2y

I wonder who is more envious of being able to do this :

Orange Florida man

Or

Mr X-Twitter

redcalcium@lemmy.institute · 4 pts · 2y

I guess it doesn't seem too far fetched for Saudis to pay Musk billions to ruin Twitter.

tsonfeir@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y

Xweets