Damascus - Sana
There are many methods and policies of repression applied by the Saudi regime on its people, whether it is the issue of mouths or the pursuit of opponents of his policies did not leave this system old or modern only and used it to liquidate anyone who dared to criticize and reveal its violations, which led to the transformation of the social networking site Twitter from a tool of expression About freedom of opinion to another for oppression and persecution.
The regime of Bani Saud was not embarrassed by the use of modern technology to intimidate his opponents.He recruited people working for Twitter to spy on opponents who criticized him through this social networking platform to transform what the Washington Post saw as a useful tool to express the opinions of the persecuted people into a tool. For persecution.
The US Justice Department revealed last week that a federal court in San Francisco charged two former Twitter employees and another man of Saudi and US nationality with spying on users of the site who criticized the Bani Saud regime, while the Washington Post noted that the Saudi system uses Twitter. To polish his page on the one hand and suppress his opponents and pursue them and discredit them on the other.
The American newspaper talked about the Saudi activist Omar Abdul Aziz, who lives in Canada and was one of more than 30 other Saudi activists who were blackmailed by the Saudi regime using materials stolen from their mobile phones after penetrating it with an espionage system made by an Israeli company called “NSO Group”. These blackmail were in response to their criticism of the Saudi regime on Twitter.
Repression and abuses by the Saudi regime have increased significantly, according to international human rights organizations, most notably Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, since the arrival of the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Arrests and torture against a wide spectrum of Saudi society, including intellectuals, clerics and activists, have expanded. Jurists, as well as prominent businessmen and women's rights activists, dared to criticize the policies of the Saudi regime.
Human Rights Watch previously confirmed that the Saudi regime used the commercial surveillance techniques available to hack electronic accounts of opponents of its policies, and after the Twitter platform to expose Ibn Salman's abuses and his arbitrary campaigns against his opponents turned into an electronic nightmare and a new way for you to mouth.
Bassima Kenoun