Saudis Sentence Dissident’s Brother to Death for Posts on Social Media

From a New York Times story by Vivian Nereim headlined “Saudis Sentence Dissident’s Brother to Death for Posts on Social Media”:

A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced to death the brother of an exiled dissident, convicting him of disloyalty to the kingdom’s rulers in a case built around anonymous social media accounts where he shared criticism of the government.

The defendant, Mohammed bin Nasser al-Ghamdi, a 54-year-old retired teacher, had almost no public profile before he was arrested last year and accused of treason. One of the main social media accounts cited in his court case, on the platform X — formerly known as Twitter — has eight followers.