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She's lucky they didn't execute her. I lived there and had peers pressure me to go to see the Friday executions in Riyadh but these are the type of people they
by GuardianCaveman 2y ago
She's lucky they didn't execute her. I lived there and had peers pressure me to go to see the Friday executions in Riyadh but these are the type of people they are executing, not rapists and murderers. I can only hope I live long enough to see their oil money run out and watch what happens next. It turns my stomach how they can get these soccer players and golf leagues and all this other sportswashing.
- aprilthird2021 2y agoIt's true, they execute people for their Tweets[1] and for saying anything sort of close to "the people should rule instead of the King" [1] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/09/saudi-arabia-100-people-executed-as-authorities-continue-relentless-killing-spree/ https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/09/saudi-arabia-... Unfortunately I think they are succeeding in diversifying their economy away from oil, and amongst businessmen these criminals are readily accepted.
- reaperman 2y agoI also lived there and was under the impression that a lot of people slated for execution for crimes against a specific person very often tended to get pardoned / execution stayed by the victim or their surviving family. There was a widespread belief rooted in Islam that pardoning someone sentenced to death was equivalent to saving their life, and this would help assure that the benevolent family members would be accepted into heaven. I think it's harder to get your execution if your crime is against the state, because there's no one who would benefit in the afterlife from commuting your sentence. (I assume that anyone in power who could has plenty of other subjects to grant leniency to, and don't have any particular religious pressure to take advantage of any individual opportunity to do so.)