In Saudi Arabia there's a law that places
atheists and atheistic beliefs as 'terrorism',
hence a man who tweeted that he was an
atheist has been fined £4,000 and sentenced
to 10 years in jail with 2000 lashes of the
cane by a high court in Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia's Islamic police found over 600
tweets by the 28 year old man denying the
existence of God, ridiculing Koranic verses,
accusing all prophets of lies and saying their
teaching fueled hostilities, and after the
Islamic court gave him all this punishments
the man has refused to 'repent' saying he only
aired his beliefs and he still stands by them.
In 2014 the late King Abdullah of Saudi
Arabia issued royal decrees aimed at
clamping down on all forms of political
dissent and protests that could “harm public
order”.
One of the articles of the decrees defined
terrorism as “calling for atheist thought in any
form, or calling into question the
fundamentals of the Islamic religion on which
this country is based”.
Joe Stork, deputy Middle East and North
Africa director of Human Rights Watch, said
“Saudi authorities have never tolerated
criticism of their policies, but these recent
laws and regulations turn almost any critical
expression or independent association into
crimes of terrorism.”
Source: The Sun UK
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