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Saudi Arabia declares online satire punishable offence

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"Producing and distributing content that ridicules, mocks, provokes and disrupts public order, religious values and public morals through social media ... will be considered a cybercrime punishable by a maximum of five years in prison and a fine of three million riyals ($800,000)"

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"Producing and distributing content that ridicules, mocks, provokes and disrupts public order, religious values and public morals through social media ... will be considered a cybercrime punishable by a maximum of five years in prison and a fine of three million riyals ($800,000)"

I expected execution by guillotine as Semitic law is based on "eye for eye".

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And Spain judges a man for "offences against god", is a global epidemy.

Wow. I didn’t believe at first but then looked it up. It is real and it is shocking.

That’s pretty close to SA except maybe the process is longer and you get a better treatment in prison.

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