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4 April 2013

Kuwaiti Twitter User Jailed for Insulting Emir

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Insult the Emir on Twitter and go to jail: Hamid Al Khalidi has been sentenced to two years in prison for insulting the Emir of Kuwait on Twitter. His attorneys plan to appeal his case to a higher court next week.

11 January 2013

Kuwaiti Twitter User Jailed for Two Years for Insulting Emir

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Kuwait slapped a two year prison sentence to yet another Twitter user for using the microblogging site to insult its ruler. Netizens react.

10 November 2012

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Anonymous Twitter Account Leads Major Protests in Kuwait

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Tens of thousands showed up in the areas of Mishref and Sabah Al-Salem protesting the Kuwaiti Amir's amendment of the voting law which allows a citizen to vote for one candidate instead of four. What is interesting though is that an anonymous Twitter account is the one deciding dates of marches and meeting points. Mona Kareem shares Twitter reactions to the march, in addition to photographs and videos.

9 June 2012

Kuwait: Three Netizens Sentenced to Prison

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Since the Arab Spring first sparked, Kuwaiti authorities have been following internet users closely and summoning them to interrogation and then sending them to courts for prosecution over different cases that are mostly sectarian or political.

12 April 2012

Kuwait: Tortured for Someone Else's Tweets

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Throughout the year of 2011, Kuwait has had many cases of arrests of twitter users. It started with two tweeps getting arrested for insulting a religious sect. Other cases had...

6 February 2012

Kuwait: Ahmad Mansoor, a UAE blogger denied entry

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Ahmad Mansoor, UAE's most famous blogger who was detained last year for several months with four other activists for signing an online petition calling for reforms in his country, was...

4 November 2011

Kuwait: More Twitter Users Arrested

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2011 has been the year of defeat for online free speech in Kuwait as netizens have never been harassed as often as they have been in the past few months....