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.

  • cyd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Haha. In a case like this, in Saudi Arabia, legal costs are basically just a way to give money to Saudi lawyers so they can pretend to be busy. I guess he doesn’t want to draw attention to the fact that the Saudi government is the co-owner of X/Twitter.