Saudi cartoonist gets 23-year prison sentence: rights group
www.voanews.com
Under Prince Mohammed, Saudi Arabia has been criticized for what activists describe as a fierce crackdown on even vaguely critical online speech
  • BougieBirdie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    4·
    2 hours ago

    23 years is insane, but the article also mentions that the cartoonist served 6 years before the case was reopened because… reasons

    I was kind of hoping to find a cartoon worth three decades of imprisonment, but I didn’t have any luck

    The cruelty is the point

  • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
    12·
    4 hours ago

    Seems like someone felt really threatened by some boxes with a handful of words in them. It must suck to be that fragile.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      31·
      3 hours ago

      You know what they say…

      You just better hope there aren’t any guillotines around.

      (Yes I know that’s the wrong French king.)