Baku. Zumrud Pashayeva – APA. A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced three lawyers to between five and eight years in prison for criticising the justice system on Twitter, APA reports quoting BBC News.
The Saudi Press Agency said the lawyers were convicted of disobeying the ruler and slandering the judicial system.
The lawyers reportedly accused courts of wrongfully convicting defendants and releasing corrupt people.
Officials warned social media users that they are being monitored and could get similar punishments as the lawyers.
The Arab Social Media Report says that 40% of all active Twitter users in the Arab world are based in Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia's top Muslim cleric last week described Twitter as "the source of all evil and devastation".
Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh, the grand mufti of Saudi Arabia, made the comments on his Fatwa television show.
He said that people were using Twitter to "promote lies, backbite and gossip and to slander Islam".
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