A 30 year-old Saudi national was apparently sentenced to 50 lashes for insulting members of his own tribe on the Twitter microblogging site. According to the Riyadh Bureau website a group of tribesmen from a village near the city of Medina – Islam’s 2nd holiest site – lodged a complaint against the man at a local police station, providing screenshots as proof. They asked the police to ban him from “harming” and insulting them, and to punish him for the offending tweets.