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Anger as man sentenced to death for Facebook comment

9 points bcaulfield 1 hour ago 5 comments

zaik 59 minutes ago | parent

This is of course wrong, no matter what the comment was, but it is strange that the article does not say what the comment was.

Animats 41 minutes ago | parent

If someone published the comment, they'd be dodging assassination attempts, like Salman Rushdie [1] and the staff of Charlie Hebdo.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salman_Rushdie

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Hebdo_shooting

JdeBP 22 minutes ago | parent

If you want a better source for Saudi Arabia and Sri Lanka, look for a newspaper that is a lot closer to them than the U.S. version of the Daily Mirror is. Even the U.K. version of the Daily Mirror would not be a good source for this sort of thing.

* https://tamilguardian.com/content/explainer-sivarasa-anojan-...

rramadass 17 minutes ago | parent

On 7 October, Amnesty International called on Saudi Arabia to quash the sentence and release him immediately and unconditionally.

"No one should be imprisoned, let alone face execution simply for expressing their views, even if these are deemed insulting or offensive," said Heba Morayef, Amnesty's regional director for the Middle East and North Africa.

rramadass 31 minutes ago | parent

Intolerant Saudi Arabia and its inhuman treatment of non-muslims. Why the world puts up with it is beyond me.

The problem was a trivial one; there was a dog in a non-muslim religious procession which was wantonly kicked by a muslim man. As any normal empathetic human would, this person wrote a facebook post condemning it in somewhat strong terms which may have had some religious flavour which he later deleted and apologized for.

The above is what is being tried under blasphemous laws by the Saudis. Where is the outrage from the international media, human rights organizations and the larger world?

We are living in the 21st century, for goodness' sake!