Mohammed al-Ghamdi, a retired teacher, was sentenced to death over tweets from an anonymous account with nine followers, says his UK-based brother

Tweets made from anonymous account with nine followers, focused on unemployment, inflation, mismanagement of resources, release of political prisoners.

  • Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee
    241·
    1 year ago

    The world needs to stop giving Saudi Arabia a pass just because they have oil. If there’s ever been a country in need of a regime change…

  • scarrtt@lemm.ee
    19·
    1 year ago

    Blood and Oil is a fascinating book about the rise of MBS. They literally had a guy on the inside in Twitter in California who would feed them back information like this. Definitely not a boring book, it reads like a thriller more often than not

  • theodewere@kbin.social
    161·
    1 year ago

    their big social experiment, “The Line” or whatever they’re calling it, will be home to some of the most complete repression the world has ever known