The Execution of Turki al-Jasser: Saudi Arabia’s Crackdown on Dissent Targets Journalists Amid Escalating Use of the Death Penalty

In 2014, Saudi journalist Turki al-Jasser warned in a tweet that his government was justifying executions under the guise of national security. In a grim outcome, al-Jasser met the very fate he foresaw. On 14 June 2025, Saudi Arabia’s interior ministry announced that al-Jasser had been executed following seven years of arbitrary detention on vague[…]