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
    29·
    10 months 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
    20·
    10 months 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
    18·
    10 months 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