For decades, if someone in Saudi Arabia got drunk in public or wrote an article that provoked the kingdom’s ultraconservative judges, that person could have been flogged in a public square. Not anymore.

For decades, if someone in Saudi Arabia got drunk in public or wrote an article that provoked the kingdom’s ultraconservative judges, that person could have been flogged in a public square. Not anymore. https://t.co/tCpXlpUwwu

— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 27, 2020