Authorities from Saudi Arabia the brother of a famous man was sentenced to death activist Saudi for allegedly posting Twitter criticism of corruption and situation human rights on the Arab monarchies, the Gulf Center for Human Rights (CGHR) reported on Sunday.

Condemnation of Muhammad bin Nasser al-Ghamdi issued on July 10, after posting from an “unknown account” on Twitter “criticism of corruption” and “violation human rights” carried out in Saudi Arabia, the NGO said in a statement.

His brother, a well-known activist Saeed bin Nasser al-Ghamdi, exiled since 2018 in great Britaindefended on Twitter on August 24 that the court was specific in the case terrorism those who tried his relatives did not receive a medical report indicating that the convict suffered from a “chronic nervous disease”.

The activist reported that this was not taken into account Profile from which this publication was made is “foreigners” and rely on “only nine followers“.

Faced with this situation, Saeed put forward that sentence death penalty against his brother, whom he described as a “fake”, intended to force the activist back to Saudi Arabia 62 yearsafter the service Saudi intelligence made an “unsuccessful attempt” to get him back.

That dissident victim of the Saudi government’s fierce campaign against critics in 2017, which led to a wave of protests arrest against human rights defenders, and in 2018 wanted political asylum in England and from there directing Hak Sanad Foundationwhich documented human rights abuses in the kingdom.

“CGHR regards this as a dangerous climb after decades of prison sentences handed down to human rights defenders […]. Saudi Arabia has become police state very repressive and superior”, the NGO said in its statement, which said dozens of activists had done this caught recently for his activity in Internet.

The organization also said that it is “deeply convinced that the death penalty is widely used as an inappropriate measure political tool by Saudi authorities and designed for sow fear in this country and terrorize citizens, especially human rights activists”.