Human Rights Watch said Monday a Saudi court had sentenced a Yemeni man to 15 years for apostasy, urging the kingdom to prioritise decriminalising blasphemy amid a modernisation drive. The rights group said that Ali Abu Luhum, 38, had been accused of making comments “via two anonymous Twitter accounts”, which prosecutors argued were registered with phone numbers linked to him. “The court found that the tweets were promoting ‘apostasy, unbelief, and atheism'”, HRW said, reporting the trial was held without defence witnesses. Charges against Abu Luhum included the reported “denial of the existen…

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