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.

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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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