‘Equality of Injustice for All’: Saudi Arabia Expands Crackdown on Dissent

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — One day in November 2015, Saad Almadi typed out a 14-word post on Twitter about Saudi Arabia’s deputy crown prince. Yet the tweet resurfaced as evidence seven years later when Mr. Almadi, 72, was arrested during a visit to Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia has always been an authoritarian monarchy with limited freedom of speech. When President Biden visited Saudi Arabia last summer and shared a fist-bump with Prince Mohammed, Saudi dissidents saw it as a retreat. “Where are you?”The post ‘Equality of Injustice for All’: Saudi Arabia Expands Crackdown on Dissent appeared first on New York Times.