Brother of prominent Saudi scholar sentenced to death over tweets

3 years ago by cyu to c/worldnews

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 28 points 3 years ago

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krische 5 points 3 years ago

The only way to do that is to stop needing oil.

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jcit878 2 points 3 years ago

not that far off. 20 years the world is going to be a hugely different place

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krische 3 points 3 years ago

I wish I shared your optimism

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scarrtt 20 points 3 years 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

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timespace 3 points 3 years ago

Added to my reading list, thanks!

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theodewere 17 points 3 years 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

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mayonaise_met 1 point 3 years ago

But they won't complete it because it's stupid and impractical.