Articles - Kuwait
25 April 2012
Kuwait
Parliament considers death penalty for insulting God, Prophet
Kuwait's parliament has provisionally voted in favour of a legal amendment that could make insulting God and the Prophet Mohammed punishable by death, reports the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI).
24 August 2011
Bahrain / Egypt / Kuwait
Governments attack Twitter activists
The governments of at least three Arab countries - Egypt, Bahrain and Kuwait - have launched investigations into or prosecuted Twitter activists, provoking other countries in the region to follow suit, reports the Arabic Network of Human Rights Information (ANHRI).
1 December 2010
Kuwait
Popular journalist sentenced to a year in jail
A Kuwaiti journalist and blogger has been slapped with a one-year prison sentence for defamation - one of 18 charges the government has filed against him in the past year, report the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Human Rights Watch and Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
14 October 2009
Kuwait
Journalist beaten; state monitors blogosphere
A Kuwaiti journalist known for his reporting and activism on corruption was assaulted and left bloodied and bruised on 4 October, reports ARTICLE 19. Freedom of expression is also being diminished with the monitoring of blogs and websites by the Kuwaiti Ministry of Transportation, according to the Arab Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI).
3 January 2003
Kuwait
UN JOURNALISTE FRANÇAIS D?EXPÉRIENCE PERD LA VIE
3 January 2003
Kuwait
VETERAN FRENCH REPORTER KILLED
Journalists are mourning the death of French reporter Patrick Bourrat following news that the veteran TF1 correspondent was accidentally struck by a tank and killed while covering military exercises near the Iraqi-Kuwaiti border.
3 January 2002
Kuwait
VETERANO PERIODISTA FRANCÉS ASESINADO
27 March 2001
Kuwait
FEMME JOURNALISTE DU PAYS; UN OFFICIER DE LA POLICE PASSE AUX AVEUX
27 March 2001
Kuwait
ASESINAN A DECANA DEL PERIODISMO, OFICIAL DE POLICÍA CONFIESA
27 March 2001
Kuwait
FIRST WOMAN JOURNALIST KILLED, POLICE OFFICER CONFESSES
Hidaya Sultan al-Salem, owner and editor of the weekly "al-Majales", was murdered on 20 March, report the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Reporters sans frontières (RSF), and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). The 66-year-old veteran journalist was killed on her way to work when an assailant opened fire on her chauffeur-driven car in Kuwait City, says CPJ. After the murder, four people were arrested and interrogated, reports the BBC. The news service adds that a police officer, Khaled Dhiyab al-Azimi, confessed to killing al-Salem because of an article she published on girls from his tribe, the Al-Awazem.
28 March 2000
Kuwait
LES LOIS RESTREIGNENT OUTRAGEUSEMENT LA LIBERTÉ D?EXPRESSION
28 March 2000
Kuwait
LAWS GROSSLY RESTRICT FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
The Kuwaiti government should repeal laws which unduly restrict freedom of expression, urges Human Rights Watch (HRW). According to the latest issue of "Index on Censorship" (Vol. 29; February 2000), "Women Who Censor", both Kuwait's Press and Publications Law and its criminal code contain articles which state that it is a criminal offence to "publish materials that violate by allusion, slander, sarcasm or disparagement, God or the prophets or the companions of the Prophet Mohammad, or sully public morals." The laws also allow for "sentences of up to three years in prison and a 3,000 KD fine (US$9,780) for inciting immoral acts and up to one year in prison and a 1,000 KD fine (US$3,260) for disseminating opinions that include sarcasm, contempt, or belittling of a religion or a religious school of thought, whether by defamation of its belief system or its traditions or its rituals or its instructions," says HRW.
26 March 2000
Kuwait
LEYES RESTRINGEN LIBERTAD DE EXPRESIÓN EN FORMA
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