With Saudi Arabia’s star-studded debut comedy festival kicking off this weekend, comedian Atsuko Okatsuka has revealed some of the event’s strict terms.

Noting she turned down a gig at the Riyadh Comedy Festival over the summer, Okatsuka said the terms of her offer would have had her “adhere to censorship rules” about the kinds of joke she could make, revealing details of the Sela Group contract.

“FYI there are more of us that said no to the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia. Here’s the offer I got back in July,” she wrote on Threads .

“The money is coming straight from the Crown Prince, who actively executes journalists, ppl with nonlethal drug offenses, bloggers, etc without due process. A lot of the ‘you can’t say anything anymore!’ comedians are doing the festival,” added

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