Saudi Arabia has sentenced to death a government critic who denounced alleged corruption and human rights abuses on social media, his brother and others familiar with the case told AFP on Monday.

The judgement was handed down against Mohammed al-Ghamdi in July by the Specialized Criminal Court, a secretive institution established in 2008 to try terrorism cases that has a history of unfair trials resulting in death sentences.

The charges against al-Ghamdi include conspiracy against the Saudi leadership, undermining state institutions and supporting terrorist ideology, sources briefed on the details of the case told AFP.

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    There are other alternatives to existing uranium-based nuclear power plants, like thorium which is much more abundant. Because nuclear isn’t mainstream in many places however, none of those alternatives have gained any steam to get built.

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      Don’t get me wrong, I’m for nuclear, and Thorium seems like a great alternative to uranium even if I haven’t researched it enough, but the issue with uranium is that it’s basically in dictatorships, just like oil