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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