Saudi Teacher Gets 20-Year Jail Term Over Critical Social Media Posts

[Sanjeev]

According to Human Rights Watch and the man's family, Saudi Arabia has sentenced a teacher to 20 years in prison for his critical social media writings.

The verdict was announced on Tuesday. According to HRW, 47-year-old Asaad al-Ghamdi was taken into custody during an at night raid on his residence in the Saudi city of Jeddah in November 2022.

The New York-based rights group said that he was found guilty on May 29 by Saudi Arabia's Specialized Criminal Court, which was founded in 2008 to try suspects charged with terrorism.

He received a sentence "to 20 years in prison on charges related to his peaceful social media activity" , according to HRW, describing it as "yet another escalation in the country's ever-worsening crackdown on freedom of expression" .

 

[Starmix]

He forgot to use his commonsense. He's facing the Arab world whose ideologies and secrecy are sensitive. He should have refrained doing it many surely reacted on his post.

 

[aninditasen]

According to Human Rights Watch and the man's family, Saudi Arabia has sentenced a teacher to 20 years in prison for his critical social media writings.

The verdict was announced on Tuesday. According to HRW, 47-year-old Asaad al-Ghamdi was taken into custody during an at night raid on his residence in the Saudi city of Jeddah in November 2022.

The New York-based rights group said that he was found guilty on May 29 by Saudi Arabia's Specialized Criminal Court, which was founded in 2008 to try suspects charged with terrorism.

He received a sentence "to 20 years in prison on charges related to his peaceful social media activity" , according to HRW, describing it as "yet another escalation in the country's ever-worsening crackdown on freedom of expression" .

Saudi Arabia has never been liberal where freedom of expression is concerned.

 

[Sanjeev]

Saudi Arabia has never been liberal where freedom of expression is concerned.

Not only in Saudi Arabia but most of the Islamic and gulf countries have the same rules in their country.

 

[Augusta]

This is why it is always good to know what you are posting online before you land yourself in a mess

 

[Min George]

Every country wants to gag social media and freedom of expression. I don't know what he posted but social media is not really faceless.

 

[aninditasen]

Not only in Saudi Arabia but most of the Islamic and gulf countries have the same rules in their country.

They treat their country men as prison of war.

 

[Kross]

For once, I thought that Saudi Arabia was the most liberal Islamic country but I guess I was very wrong with that.