December 2, 2015

#SueMeSaudi hashtag taunting the Arabian nation for threatening legal action over comparisons to ISIS

Twitter users all over the world are taunting Saudi Arabia after its government announced that it will sue a person who compared the state to ISIS on social media.
 
The unnamed 'offender' had called the death sentence handed down to a Palestinian poet in Saudi Arabia 'ISIS-like', which saw the country's justice ministry threaten legal action.
 
The hashtag #SueMeSaudi has since become a growing trend, with Twitter users pointing out the similarities between the Saudi Sharia law justice system, and that imposed by ISIS.

Saudi Arabia's justice ministry announced its plans to take legal action against the unnamed Twitter user last week,
'The justice ministry will sue the person who described the sentencing of a man to death for apostasy as being "ISIS-like",' the newspaper Al-Riyadh quoted a source in the justice ministry as saying.
 
Within hours, the Twitter community had responded in turn, openly defying the Saudi government using the hashtags #SaudiArabiaIsISIS and #SueMeSaudi.



 

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