Saudi Arabia punishes critical tweets with the death penalty or 45 years in prison
Saudi Arabia punishes critical tweets with the death penalty or 45 years in prison
The absolute monarchy led by Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman has been cracking down on online dissent even as it seeks to show a kind face to the world in order to attract tourism and investment
i, for one, look up to a day when oil exports aren't enough to keep that parody of a country running
Nah man that line city’s really gonna do it for them, you’ll see!
It's despicable that the US continues doing business with this horrible fucking country. Instead of turning their country into glass they're buying and selling those scumbags whatever they want.
you still have iran around, which ironically would probably do better out of these two when oil market irreversibly crashes (they do have actual industry other than oil, some farming and don't need to hire sudanese for them to die in what passes for "army")
Boy. The government that must silenced it's critics to remain in power must be really weak.
Yes, the Arabs have worried about what you and I find "weak government" since Mohamed
They were pretty worried during the Arab spring. Would've been fantastic if not for the insane extreme Islamists.
saudi arabia is very isalmofascist evil itself, it should be shunned, not partnered with. the united states makes it's own bed, even after saudis funded by saudi nationals flew airplanes into the twin towers, pentagon, and a field in pennsylvania en route to the white house on 9/11.
"scientists remind everyone that renewable energy is ready to go, whenever" and has been for the last 30 years
What a cheerful bunch of lads this royal family seems to be! Would gladly drink a beer or two with them at the local pub!
So logging on to the Twitter of someone you don't like and tweeting bad things totally doesn't happen, right?
This would only be a concern to someone interested in justice, not to the Saudi government.
wtf
I think everyone should make critical tweets of the Saudis to big down the court
Now that Saudi Arabia owns Twitter this is going to be more common
45 years ? Wow.
That's the lighter sentence
Maybe it's better to get the death sentence than 45 years in a Saudi prison
Pshh, what could be worse than 45 years in prison? 46?
They aren't 'tweets' anymore, so it's fine, right?
I this this is too harsh.