Think before you click, as the saying goes, when doing something online. It’s always best to be mindful when sending messages to someone on the Internet, especially if you’re sending heart emojis to girls in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, or you might end up in jail.
You read that right. Sending a heart emoji to a girl on WhatsApp or any other social networking site in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia is now considered a crime of inciting debauchery and harassment, punishable by law.
Just weeks after it was featured by a right-wing, anti-LGBTQIA+ Christian YouTuber, a pro-LGBTQIA+ church in Plano, Texas, was set on fire on July 23rd.
Pro-LGBTQ+ church set on fire following video of visit by right-wing YouTuberhttps://t.co/se4feEdPHS
Health authorities in northern Iran released a new edict, ordering that women who don’t wear their hijab correctly or have no headscarf should be denied healthcare. This sparked strong reactions among Iranian netizens and prominent Iranian figures and activists.
The circulation of a letter to hospitals requiring strict hijab for medical services in northern Iran has sparked strong public reactions.https://t.co/n86skF65i6
When Reza Seqati, who works as a director for the regime’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance in the northern province of Gilan, was exposed after a video of him having sex with a young man circulated on the Internet, the issue was widely discussed on Iranian social media.
While protests in Iran have slowly subsided after Mahsa Amini died under the custody of the morality police in September 2022 for failing to wear her hijab correctly, the Iranian regime remains steadfast as ever in strictly enforcing its mandatory hijab law on Iranian women.
Iran is pursuing a new crackdown on women who violate strict dress codes https://t.co/QLFobGOt7e
A man from Portugal was arrested by Turkish authorities and was imprisoned because he "looked gay” and wore a crop top, exposing him to horrendous conditions and human rights violations during his time in jail.
A man says he was arrested and kept in horrific conditions in a Turkish prison for 20 days for 'looking gay'https://t.co/KPCGBHdR2W
When Christopher Nolan’s latest film Oppenheimer was released worldwide, it sparked a new Internet phenomenon called Barbenheimer after being screened with Greta Gerwig’s Barbie on the same date, and it also reignited debates on whether the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II were justifiable and necessary.
An Iranian official in the northwestern province of Gilan was sacked after a sex tape involving him and a young man was leaked on social media.
Peyman Behboudi who recently published the sex tape of the Iranian hijab watchdog official on his Telegram channel, says the Islamic Republic's agents have arrested his sister and her children. https://t.co/sPze3vKp6x
A man in India was arrested on the morning of July 21st after he beheaded his sister and carried her head while walking calmly on the street, with a video of him holding the severed head making rounds on social media.
After two separate incidents of Quran burning in Sweden and Denmark this July, emotions run extremely high in Iraq, where the Swedish embassy was torched down by protesters along with an attempt to storm the Danish diplomatic mission in the country’s capital Baghdad.
Video footage shows the Swedish embassy in Iraq on fire after hundreds of people stormed the complex in a protest against the planned burning of a Quran in Sweden pic.twitter.com/PAkccnCIz6
