Posted on 10/11/2015 4:36:52 PM PDT by dynachrome
Saudi Arabia has threatened to execute those who 'spread rumours' about the government on social media, a state-run website has reported. It is the first time the Gulf nation, which has come under fire for issuing death penalties to protesters, has created a rule to punish ordinary people for what they say on Twitter and Facebook, human rights campaigners Reprieve told MailOnline. There are already laws and departments to censor mass media in the country, which is known to crush dissidence with capital punishment. Only the worst 'rumour-mongers' will be executed, while lesser offenders will be punished with lashes, imprisonment, travel bans, house arrest and a social media ban, a Ministry of Justice source is quoted to have said.
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Link to google translated original article in Saudi Arabian paper:
Zero is jealous he can’t do that here... yet.
Coming to a neighborhood near you when ICANN transfer complete.
Could the reason this is recent news be that until now, Saudi Arabia really didn’t have internet except to serve traveling foreigners?
People expected it to be oppressive, but the gamut of what could be done was not large anyhow.
#tryandfindmecameljockeys
Such a beautiful place to live
And such nice people!
I may sell my place in Flordia
and start wintering in Sorry Arabia
These are the jackasses that fund ISIS.
We should have taken out SA instead of Iraq!
Kick their ass and take their gas!
Believe me, Ostinko is tryin’
Wouldn’t have had enough guts to set up the ruthless kingdom needed to keep that hotbed of Islam in check.
Their version of the Patriot Act?
Saudi has the highest per capita usage of Twitter in the word.
Someone please explain the differences b/w Saudi and ISIS, thanks in advance.
Yup, we don’t have the belly for empire.
ISIS has been so ugly that I’ve just hidden my face from it. What’s going on with the Saudis there. Is it being supported at some official level? How? Why? Why no complaints from the West? This would seem to be asking for curtains upon Saudi Arabia being the designated holy land of Islam where certain requisite Islamic activity MUST be conducted. Put it under ISIS control and it becomes hostile to at least half the Muslims in the world who happen to also need to go there for the sake of their religion. Does not sound thinkingly coordinated at all to me.
Also it would have to keep on being supported as the Islamic holy land. Getting our fingers too deep into that might drag us into evil we wouldn’t want.
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