Tag: Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia calls for the death penalty for tweeting dissident

A Saudi law professor who advocated reforms has been in prison for years. The prosecution demands that he should also be executed for tweeting. In Saudi Arabia, a well-known law professor faces the death penalty for, among other things, "owning a Twitter account" and spreading "hostile" messages to the kingdom via WhatsApp and Telegram. This is reported … Continue reading Saudi Arabia calls for the death penalty for tweeting dissident →

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Saudi agents are said to have infiltrated Wikipedia

The government of Saudi Arabia is said to have used Wikipedia administrators as agents to control the content on the platform. This emerges from a recent report by the NGOs Smex and Democracy for the Arab World Now (Dawn). The Saudi government is said to have infiltrated Wikipedia. – CC-BY-SA 3.0 Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. In a joint report, Smex … Continue reading Saudi agents are said to have infiltrated Wikipedia →