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Justice ministry of Saudi Arabia is planning to sue Twitter user for comparing the death sentence of Palestinian poet to that of barbaric acts of Islamic State. "The justice ministry will sue the person who described ... the sentencing of a man to death for apostasy as being 'ISIS-like'," the newspaper Al-Riyadh wrote in its paper quoting a Justice Ministry official. The source did noyt reveal the identity of the user or the penalty that it will attract. The source did not identify the Twitter user or the possible penalty, according to a report published in Reuters.

Ashraf Fayadh on Friday was accused by the Saudi Arabian court to death for abandoning his faith. Condemning the Palestinian poet of apostasy, he will be sentenced to death as his punishment, revealed the trial documents as observed by the Human Rights Watch. In 2013, Fayadh was imprisoned by the religious police of the country in Abha, South West of Saudi Arabia, and then arrested again in 2014. The justice system in Saudi Arabia is based on the Islamic Sharia Law and the judges of this system are the clerics that belong to the kingdom's very orthodox Wahhabi School of Sunni Islam. According to the interpretation of Sharia by the Wahhabi, heretical or blasphemous views will attract nothing short of death penalty, as reported by Newsweek.

In January, Raif Badawi, a broadminded writer was whipped 50 times for his views and then sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment with 1,000 lashes for being blasphemous last year. This act led to an international outcry for inhuman punishment. Even though Badawi still in prison, the diplomats assured that he will not be flogged again. The Saudi court in 2014 also sentenced three lawyers 8 years of imprisonment after they criticized the method of justice ministry openly on Twitter. In 2015, when King Salman gained the throne, the charges were dropped, says India Today.