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.

  • Fredselfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    1 year ago

    Why as American we should be not friends with that country and should be huge sactions of them.

    But nooo we give them money and weapons.

      • BongRipsMcGee420@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        1 year ago

        We built some gas turbines for them at Siemens and trained a few of their people for a new factory we had to build in Riyadh as part of the turbine deal. The individual people we were training were nice enough but it felt like morals just went out the window when the Saudi money showed up.

    • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      It’s so weird how the US cut ties with Russia when the war started, but still remains friends with a country like this. Somehow I feel like western countries only care about human rights violations if the victims are other westeners.