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dannyw on Nov 10, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Saudi Arabia detains 201 princes, businessmen in $...

I don't know. I think this is another demonstration of Saudi Arabia's unfair and unjust society than how you're portraying it.

notahacker on Nov 10, 2017 [–]

Suspect that treating royalty like common prisoners would be viewed as "cruel and unusual punishment" by segments of Saudi Arabian society which have relatively little issue with the principle of mass arrests of political rivals (or indeed the cruel and unusual punishments the kingdom does carry out)

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