Kuwait: Journalist jailed


Issue 971 - 06 Jun 2014 | 1 minute read

Kuwait’s appeals court has ordered Ayyad Al-Harbi, who was convicted of insulting the ruling family on Twitter in January 2013, to start serving his two-year sentence. According to the French news agency AFP, the appeals court upheld the lower court’s verdict against Al-Harbi, a journalist with an independent Kuwait-based website, and said his prison term must start immediately, without waiting for any appeal to the Supreme Court. In July 2013, Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah issued a pardon for all those convicted of insulting him – though it seems this did not apply to those who had decided to appeal and therefore had not concluded their legal process.

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