Khaled al-Alkami

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Khaled al-Alkami , also Khalid al-Alkami ( Arabic خالد العلكمي, DMG Ḫālid al-ʿAlkamī ), is a Saudi Arabian journalist and writer who has been imprisoned since September 2017.

life and work

Khaled al-Alkami had a Twitter account. He has 403,000 followers. He was arrested in his home country on September 9, 2017.

In May 2018, the human rights organization SALAM criticized al-Alkami's ongoing “arbitrary” detention. He was only in custody because he had written that the country's economic reform was worthless without political reform.

The American daily New York Times and the Austrian daily Der Standard put his arrest in the context of multiple repression of critical voices: "Last year a Saudi Arabian Twitter account with the name" Ahmed "was blocked. The writer Khaled al-Alkami [ ...] has been in prison in Saudi Arabia since September 2017, just like the brothers of the regime critic Omar Abdulaziz, who lives in Canada . " In the English-language media, the Twitter account was referred to as "Ahmad". According to Standard, the regime critics have only one thing in common: “According to the New York Times, their names appear in a report by the management consultancy McKinsey . The nine-page report published in 2017 [...] analyzes the reactions on social media, especially Twitter, to the austerity measures that were implemented in Saudi Arabia in 2015. "

According to McKinsey, there should have been “significantly more negative than positive reactions” with regard to the austerity measures. Al-Alkami, Abdulaziz and "Ahmed" are said to have "belonged to the supporting voices". The management consultancy, however, was “appalled” at the possibility that the report could have been used by Riyadh to silence critics. It was "only created for internal purposes with publicly available data." The standard also writes: The arrest of al-Alkami and other measures are part of a "large-scale intimidation campaign in the kingdom". Also, Business Insider shared this view. There is a troll army that is still subordinate to Saud al-Qahtani, the former adviser to MbS . The hashtag “We all have trust in Mohammed bin Salman” was shared most frequently among robot profiles worldwide.

Publications

consequences

Individual evidence

  1. Twitter : خالد العلكمي @ AlkamiK , accessed October 25, 2018
  2. Gender Desk , accessed on October 25, 2018
  3. SALAM: Saudi authorities continue detaining the journalist “Khaled Al Alkami” , accessed on October 25, 2018 (with a portrait photo of al-Alkami)
  4. a b c d Flora Mory: Saudi Arabia purposefully follows critics on Twitter, “New York Times” charges consultancy McKinsey , Der Standard (Vienna), October 22, 2018
  5. Katie Benner, Mark Mazzetti, Ben Hubbard and Mike Isaac: Saudis' Image Makers: A Troll Army and a Twitter Insider , New York Times , October 20, 2018
  6. Business Insider : The Saudi government reportedly targeted and punished several dissidents after McKinsey identified them in a report , October 21, 2018