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.

  • Fredselfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    2 years ago

    Why as American we should be not friends with that country and should be huge sactions of them.

    But nooo we give them money and weapons.

      • BongRipsMcGee420@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        2 years ago

        We built some gas turbines for them at Siemens and trained a few of their people for a new factory we had to build in Riyadh as part of the turbine deal. The individual people we were training were nice enough but it felt like morals just went out the window when the Saudi money showed up.

  • JoYo@lemmy.mlEnglish
    111·
    2 years ago

    that sounds like a completely fabricated justification to execute someone.

  • Pat12@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    The same country that arrested Murtaja Qureiris (13 at the time) over anti-government protest charges; he’s facing the death penalty possibly by crucifixion.

    The whole thing is revolting and the fact that tax dollars go to that country is despicable.