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#SueMeSaudi goes viral after Saudi govt threatens to sue anyone comparing them to ISIS

Kingdom threatens legal action against Twitter users who compared its decision to execute a poet to punishments by IS

Web Desk December 01, 2015

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Several took to Twitter to taunt Saudi Arabia after the state reportedly threatened legal action against Twitter users who compared its decision to execute a poet to punishments carried out by the Islamic State.

According to Reuters, the Kingdom’s 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.'"

Saudi court sentences Palestinian poet to death for apostasy: HRW

The announcement came after a Twitter user compared the Kingdom’s decision to sentence 35-year-old Palestinian poet, Ashraf Fayadh, for apostasy, to the punishments handed out by ISIS.

"Questioning the fairness of the courts is to question the justice of the Kingdom and its judicial system based on Islamic law, which guarantees rights and ensures human dignity," the source told the pro-government newspaper.

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However, undeterred by the threat, many took to Twitter asking the Saudi government to ‘sue them.’

https://twitter.com/JoshuaKelly116/status/670631485590769665

https://twitter.com/LeeJasper/status/670541198742970368

My cartoon Saturday @TheTimes. Isis is a barbaric death cult...what about some of our allies? #syriaairstrikes pic.twitter.com/QkA4QLp9kq
— Peter Brookes (@BrookesTimes) November 28, 2015

https://twitter.com/mahajanomics/status/671064574100131841

https://twitter.com/LeicsFox/status/670294623710027776

https://twitter.com/Zorro_Aus/status/669796565062676480

A Saudi Arabian court sentenced the Palestinian poet to death for apostasy, abandoning his Muslim faith, according to trial documents seen by Human Rights Watch, its Middle East researcher Adam Coogle said on Friday. Ashraf Fayadh was detained by the country’s religious police in 2013 in Abha, in southwest Saudi Arabia, and then rearrested and tried in early 2014.

This article originally appeared on Independent

COMMENTS (2)

Rex Minor | 8 years ago | Reply The new monarch will in time take off the cloak of 7th century and reform his Government to 21st century norms, which reflect true values of Islam. Enough with killings and beheadings in the holiests land of Islam which is bestowed with cosmic energy.. Rex Minor

goggi (Lahore) | 8 years ago | Reply This diabolical religion has lost its power over many people's conscience. These ugly murderers live in their self-created dark dungeons where the light never reaches.

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