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Saudi human rights activist Manal Sharif threatened
12-11-2018
The prominent Saudi activist, Manal Sharif, 39, declared that she has deleted her Twitter account which has become a life-threatening platform for her and other human rights campaigners after it saved her life before. In an article published in the Washington Post on November 9, Sharif explained the reasons for her decision in the aftermath of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbu, which showed that the lives of journalists and activists are at stake. She mentioned that she would have disappeared without trace back in 2011 when the secret Saudi police have dragged her from her home in S.A in 2011, while her 5-year old son was asleep, had it not been for a brave twitter follower witness who posted live the incident. “Things are different today. The Saudi regime controls everything, including the air we breathe,” Sharif said. She recounted the harassments, intimidations and death threats by the Kingdom’s electronic army against dissident twitter followers, noting that Twitter has failed to make the online platform safer for activists, which forced many of them to suspend their accounts. She called on IT developers to build more decentralized social media networks that do not aim for storing and selling the information of their users, and that prevent the rich few from manipulating and controlling public discourse. Freedom of speech, she maintained, protects all other freedoms. (Al Diyar, November 12, 2018)
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