Kuwait Sentences Two Men To Jail For Tweets Criticizing Ruler

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 8, 2013 @11:32PM from the sticks-and-stones dept.

New submitter Oxide writes "A Kuwaiti court sentenced a man to two years in prison on Monday for insulting the country's ruler on Twitter, his lawyer said, the second person to be jailed for the offense in as many days. The Gulf state has clamped down in recent months on political activists who have been using social media websites to criticize the government and the ruling family. What's interesting is that the tweets in question did not mention the ruler directly but just indicated it might be him it is referring to."

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Another argument for metric by MrKaos · 2013-01-08 23:43 · Score: 5, Funny

As it's obvious this ruler was Imperial.

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Damned Tyrants! by neiljt · 2013-01-08 23:44 · Score: 5, Funny

Cripes, reading this makes the US sound like the Land of the Free.
Re:Dont talk shit about people... by Buggz · 2013-01-08 23:57 · Score: 5, Insightful

That would make the problem hidden, not solved.