The sister of a Saudi dissident has instructed Bloomberg {that a} 2015 breach by two Twitter workers enabled the Saudi authorities to unmask a number of nameless Twitter accounts whose tweets criticized the regime. The US federal authorities criminally charged the 2 rogue workers final November.
Abdulrahman al-Sadhan is a US-educated Saudi man who labored for the Crimson Crescent Motion—the Muslim world’s counterpart to the Crimson Cross. He additionally secretly ran a well-liked pseudonymous Twitter account with 1000’s of followers. The account criticized the Saudi authorities.
“It’s clear this was a focused assault on goal on activists and critics on Twitter,” stated Areej al-Sadhan, Abdulrahman’s sister. “My brother, sadly, is a kind of who was focused.
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