Saudi journalist Turki al-Jasser, who reported on issues like human rights violations and corruption by the royal family until he was arrested and imprisoned in 2018, was executed most likely via beheading by a scimitar, a large, thick sword wielded by a public servant, Middle East Eye reports.
There’s no official acknowledgement of al-Jasser’s beheading from the United States government, who weren’t shy about decrying false reports of a white genocide in South Africa or the designation of the Neo-Nazi AfD party as an extremist group in Germany. Yet this one will slide.