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Ashraf Fayadh was sentenced to death on grounds of apostasy

#SueMeSaudi: Twitter Netizens React Following Saudi Arabian Government's Threat to Sue User

Dec 03, 2015 09:46 AM EST

A Saudi Arabian government official threatened to file a case against an unidentified Twitter user, who allegedly compared the death sentence handed to a Palestinian poet on Friday with the punitive measures of the militant group ISIS. Now, a number of Twitter users have shared their thoughts with the hashtag #SueMeSaudi.

Saudi Arabia Whips Blogger in Public For Anti-Islam Views

Vittorio Hernandez |

Jan 10, 2015 01:49 AM EST

The Saudi Arabian government carried out on Friday the initial installment of a 1,000-lash punishment it meted in May on Raif Badawi who wrote anti-Islam articles in his blog. Besides the flogging, at 50 each week for 20 weeks, he was also given a 10-year prison term.