Tuesday, December 09, 2014

Amnesty reveals Saudi tactics to repress Internet users...

Amnesty International has published a report which reveals some of the Al Saud regime’s repressive tactics to silence online activists in the Persian Gulf kingdom.

On Saturday, the renowned rights group published an interview with an unnamed Saudi online activist, who warned that the authorities in Saudi Arabia have stepped up their crackdown on dissidents through “investigations, arrests and short-term detentions of journalists, athletes, poets, bloggers, activists and tweeters.”

The blogger further said the Riyadh regime seeks to stifle dissidents by resorting to its so-called Terrorism Law and blames the people who contact human rights organizations as “terrorists.”

Riyadh is also using the “shameful” Terrorism Law to exercise censorship “at its maximum” level and apply surveillance methods to hack and monitor activists’ accounts.

“Courts issue prison sentences of 10 years or more as a result of a single tweet,” he said. Full story...

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