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3. A Saudi journalist tweeted against the government - and was executed for 'high treason' (this happened back in June)

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Thu Nov 20, 2025, 08:34 AM

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The tweet posted by Saudi journalist Turki al-Jasser in 2014 was chillingly prescient: “The Arab writer can be easily killed by their government under the pretext of ‘national security’,” he wrote.

On Saturday, the Saudi interior ministry announced that al-Jasser had been executed in Riyadh, for crimes including “high treason by communicating with and conspiring against the security of the Kingdom with individuals outside it”.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/18/saudi-arabia-turki-al-jasser-executed

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