Turki bin Abdulaziz al-Jasser
Saudi Arabian journalist
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| Intro | Saudi Arabian journalist | |
| Places | Saudi Arabia | |
| is | Journalist | |
| Work field | Journalism | |
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| Religion: | Islam | |
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| Death | 2018 |
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Turki bin Abdulaziz al-Jasser was a Saudi journalist arrested and tortured to death while being held in a Saudi prison. News of his death came only one month after the murder of another Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi. Al-Jasser was running what he thought was an anonymous Twitter account called Kashkol (Arabic: كشكول ) as a "proxy public square" for Saudi citizens to express their opinions, but instead became a forum for army 'trolls' to poison debate, harass dissidents and spread misinformation. In 2018 his identity was revealed by the Twitter office in Dubai.