Saudi Twitter users grapple with ‘digital authoritarianism’

The former Saudi official’s tweet expressing condolences over an activist’s death seemed benign, but his mysterious disappearance soon afterwards highlighted what observers call the state’s “digital authoritarianism”. Abdulaziz al-Dukhail, who had served as deputy finance minister, went missing in April along with at least two other public intellectuals also believed to be in detention for their implied criticism of the state. In the following…