Tuesday, December 01, 2015

#SueMeSaudi: Twitter users taunt Saudi Arabia...

The hashtag #SueMeSaudi is soaring after a source at the Saudi Arabian justice ministry reportedly said he would sue a Twitter user who compared Saudi Arabia to the terror group "Islamic State."

The justice ministry official was quoted by the government-aligned Al Riyadh newspaper as saying "The justice ministry will sue the person who described ... the sentencing of a man to death for apostasy as being 'ISIS-like,'" Reuters reports.

The official did not define who the Twitter user was or what the potential punishment would be, but he did succeed in accidentally create two hashtags: #SaudiArabiaIsISIS and #SueMeSaudi.

Comparing Saudi Arabia to terror group "Islamic State" had already become more common ever since Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh was sentenced to death for "spreading atheism and disrespecting the prophet" November.

 But it was the threat of legal action against the Twitter user in Saudi Arabia that has encouraged Twitter users throughout the world to openly defy and even taunt the Saudi government:. Full story...

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