[HN Gopher] Saudi student sentenced to 34 years in prison over T...
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Saudi student sentenced to 34 years in prison over Twitter posts
Author : Sami_Lehtinen
Score : 43 points
Date : 2022-08-17 16:49 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.euronews.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.euronews.com)
| throwaway67743 wrote:
| Originated in a country with egregious rights violations, smeared
| said country in public, went back and got imprisoned for it, when
| did people stop considering consequences? It's likely you'll be
| reprimanded for things like that so either don't do it in public
| or better, don't go back...
| lahvak wrote:
| Reminds me of the old rules of life under communism: 1) Don't
| think. 2) If you do think, don't speak. 3) If you think and
| speak, don't write. 4) If you think, speak and write, don't
| sign. 5) And if you think, speak, write and sign, don't be
| surprised.
| throwaway67743 wrote:
| Pretty accurate, if the risk of speaking out is death, you
| don't speak out you at least attempt to go somewhere where
| death isn't the only choice
| d23 wrote:
| Disgusting victim blaming. Not surprised this is a throwaway
| account.
| pvaldes wrote:
| Is victim advicing, not victim blaming, and is a really,
| really good advice for youngsters: All that you do on
| internet can be used against you later. Despite what you have
| been told all your life, privacy is good for you.
| throwaway67743 wrote:
| Thank you it's novel to see someone get my point - perhaps
| could be better phrased but the point still remains
| throwaway67743 wrote:
| You must be from reddit
| throwaway67743 wrote:
| It's only a throwaway if it's actually a throwaway ;)
| goplty wrote:
| inglor_cz wrote:
| SA is morphing from a medieval theocratic kingdom into a modern
| authoritarian state with all power concentrated in hands of a
| single, arguably secular, dictator in front of our eyes.
|
| I suspect we can call this _progress_ , from the 1400s right into
| the 1930s.
| Iv wrote:
| How would you argue he is secular? Last time I checked KSA had
| an official religion, apostasy was punished (in theory) by
| death and one of its main cities (Mecca) was forbidden to non-
| muslims.
| ncr100 wrote:
| There was a statement by some Saud or other 10+ years ago about
| how their modernization plans would appear to be slow to the
| eyes of westerners, due to the relative tolerances of the
| populations they lead. (I don't recall the specific
| individual.)
|
| Believe what you want about this claim, that's a justification
| for how it goes over there.
| petre wrote:
| Oil got more expensive, the Saudi ledership got complacent.
| Maybe if there's a food crisis they'll wake up, but many
| people in poorer countries would die, so hopefully not. The
| sooner we get off oil, the better. Bonus: Iran and Russian
| leadership is going to be screwed up as well.
| justsomehnguy wrote:
| If my memoey serves me well, this is almost exact words I
| heard about SA modernization plan 2-3 years ago.
|
| Ie you can up your anecdata on this from n=1 to... n=1.5, I
| think.
| fzfaa wrote:
| Well thankfully in the West nobody has ever been put in prison
| over Twitter posts.
| influx wrote:
| It's wrong there also.
| mercy_dude wrote:
| MisterSandman wrote:
| I've never seen people who are pro non-gendered pronouns bring
| up the topic in random discussions. People like you, on the
| other hand...
| JoeyBananas wrote:
| They don't, but they ought to
| drewrv wrote:
| Feminists have been critical of the human rights record of
| Saudia Arabia for my entire lifetime. We should have listened
| to them decades ago.
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