Please be careful if you are in Saudi Arabia and is being Actively using Facebook. The reason is, there are just seven people were sentenced to Arabic because the use of social networking.
As reported by Al-Jazeera (30/6), seven activists in Saudi Arabia sentenced to prison because of using Facebook as a means of protesting against the government. As a result, they were punishable by five to 10 years in prison.
The protest is itself a form of resistance that is Shiite minority in the eastern province. Over the last two years, this region has become the central Shiite government in the fight against discrimination of Riyadh.
As reported by Al-Jazeera (30/6), seven activists in Saudi Arabia sentenced to prison because of using Facebook as a means of protesting against the government. As a result, they were punishable by five to 10 years in prison.
The protest is itself a form of resistance that is Shiite minority in the eastern province. Over the last two years, this region has become the central Shiite government in the fight against discrimination of Riyadh.
With the threat of prison itself, Human Rights Watch said that it had violated human rights. It said there was no longer a safe way for anyone there to protest.
"Throw someone into jail for posting on Facebook indicating that there was no longer a safe way to talk openly in Saudi Arabia, even in social networking," said Joe Stork, deputy director of Human Rights Watch in the Middle East.
Given these actions, the human rights body was then urged the EU to act. They wanted a strong statement from Catherine Ashton, foreign policy chief European Union and some other participating countries to condemn the actions of Saudi Arabia.
"If the European Union did not respond to this issue in this week, This will deepen the human rights violations by the government there," said HRW spokesman.
Until now own, the government of Saudi Arabia was reluctant to comment on the matter.
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