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| Saudi Arabian activist given 10-year jail term |
| 2016-02-03 |
| [Iran Press TV] A court in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... has handed down a 10-year prison sentence to an activist who used Twitter to call for protests and sit-ins against the ruling Al Saud dynasty, and the release of dissidents. On Tuesday, the Specialized Criminal Court found the unnamed man guilty of opening several Twitter accounts, and using the accounts to "call for protests and spread chaos to release detainees that are held for security and terrorism charges," Arabic-language Saudi Arabian daily newspaper Okaz reported. He also described Arab rulers as despots, published posts deemed offensive to security forces and joined a protest calling for the release of a detainee outside the prisoner's home. On January 12, Saudi authorities incarcerated Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! the sister of tossed in the clink Please don't kill me! Saudi blogger Raif Badawi along with her two-year-old daughter in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah. She was questioned for four hours before being transferred to Dhaban prison. Raif Badawi's wife, Ensaf Haidar, wrote on her Twitter page that Samar's arrest was related to her alleged role in managing a Twitter account campaigning for the release of her ex-husband, Waleed Abulkhair. |
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