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Saudi Arabia reportedly sentences man to death for criticizing government on social media

www.cbsnews.com Saudi Arabia reportedly sentences man to death for criticizing government on social media

"A citizen is going to have his head cut off over tweets on an anonymous account with less than 10 followers," one rights group said.

Saudi Arabia has sentenced to death a government critic who denounced alleged corruption and human rights abuses on social media, his brother and others familiar with the case told AFP on Monday.

The judgement was handed down against Mohammed al-Ghamdi in July by the Specialized Criminal Court, a secretive institution established in 2008 to try terrorism cases that has a history of unfair trials resulting in death sentences.

The charges against al-Ghamdi include conspiracy against the Saudi leadership, undermining state institutions and supporting terrorist ideology, sources briefed on the details of the case told AFP.

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Why did we send a generations worth of our wealth to these people instead of developing solar and wind?

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- Conservatism. That's why.
  
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- Better yet, go nuclear.
  
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  Same issue with providing countries
  
  -9
- you have good intentions,
  
  but
  
  "our welth" hilarious
  
  -16
- Solar powered diesel trucks? How is that supposed to work?
  
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  Im struggling to see if you are serious and you don’t see how utterly stupid that question is or if you are playing the fool for comical reasons.
  
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  Electric semis dude. They are definitely coming.
  
  https://www.freightliner.com/trucks/ecascadia/
  
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- Because oil is more efficient, simple as that
  
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  It was more profitable.
  
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Our "ally"

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- Can’t wait until green energy becomes mainstream so we can burn this leech off of us once and for all.
  
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  Permanently Deleted
  
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We need to get off oil and leave em

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- Don't bash their prophets, bash their profits
  
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- Or Iraq them
  
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  That's the dumbest fucking thing I heard in a while, and I just watched the GQP primaries.
  
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  That's a great Idea let created EVEN MORE TERRORIST GROUPS. BECAUSE WE DONT HAVE ENOUGH
  
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like Jamal Khashoggi with extra steps

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Hey remember all those times the US government did business with Saudi Arabia? I wish I could come up with something to say about that that wouldn't get me visited by at least 9 letters worth of government agencies

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- Why did ?
  
  As European, I'm laughing or crying, depend, to see we have turned Putin to this...
  
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- I wish I could come up with something to say about that that wouldn't get me visited by at least 9 letters worth of government agencies
  
  Lol what? Yeah, no. That's silly.
  
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  What's silly is that we keep voting for people who keep selling weapons to terrorists
  
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And yet, dubai is advertisedd by many influencer as a dream place to live.

But it's an autocratic hell, they live on the backs of slaves and they aren't save from repercussions

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- Dubai isn't in Saudi Arabia.
  
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  My bad, got them mixed up
  
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- Different country
  
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  Seems my Geographie is rusted, got it mixed up
  
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- wrong country, buddy.
  
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