"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.

  • diprount_tomato@lemmy.worldEnglish
    217·
    10 months ago

    And? You make it sound like it isn’t obvious that oil is cheaper than investing in an experimental source of energy where not being in deficit is an achievement

    • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      10 months ago

      experimental source of energy where not being in a deficit is an achievement

      No one is talking about fusion here.

    • who8mydamnoreos@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      Its was short sighted, we could have been cutting edge leaders in the energy of the future, but we let oil refiners convince us that it was in our best interest to let China and others take that mantle. Now we lag behind. We could have used renewable technology and sanctions against hydrocarbon energy to shape the emerging markets of the world but noooooo let all that soft power slip away so oil barons can get more money. Oil was extremely expensive for all of us we just haven’t seen the true bill yet.

    • dragonflyteaparty@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      Or hear me out. Maybe we don’t give money to tyrants who kill their people who criticizing the government. It’s a crazy, novel idea, I know, but it’s possible.