Saudi Arabia may execute a Muslim for his tweets

All this happened mid-February, but I had not been able to post about it.
Saudi Writer Hamza Kashgari Detained in Malaysia Over Muhammad Tweets
After his arrest in Malaysia he was deported to Saudi Arabia.
The bloodlust faced by the 'blaspheming' Saudi journalist
The take away quote:

One has to wonder whether a man who weeps at comments on the internet has the toughness required to survive in democratic politics, but of course Saudi is not a democracy. It is a despotism, made worse by streaks of populism.

The most horrible thing that dictatorships teach us about human nature is that their worst crimes are often the most popular parts of their programmes.