Posts Tagged ‘insult’
May 22nd, 2012
A prominent opposition activist
has been fined for insulting a government employee in
Bahrain. Zainab al-Khawaja, daughter of imprisoned activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, who has been on
hunger strike for over three months, was
arrested last month after protesting for the release of her father during the Bahrain Grand Prix. Despite being fined 200 dinars ($530), Zainab al-Khawaja remains imprisoned on the charge of attempting to stage a protest. If convicted, the activist faces another charge or imprisonment. The case will be heard on 24 May.
November 25th, 2011
A
Thai Government minister
has warned that Facebook users who ‘like’ or ‘share’ pages which denigrate the monarchy could face prosecution.
The warning from information technology minister, Anudith Nakornthap,
follows the sentencing of a 61 year old man to 20 years in prison for sending text messages deemed insulting to the country’s queen. Ampon Tangnoppakul was accused of sending four text messages deemed insulting to the monarchy in May 2010. The laws against
lèse-majesté (insulting a monarch) in Thailand are the most severe in the world – even repeating the details of an alleged offence is illegal.
July 16th, 2010
A court in Kuwait City has
acquitted a journalist prosecuted for insulting Kuwait’s Prime Minister. Journalist
Mohammed Abdel Qader Al-Jassem and activist Khaled Al-Fadala, had their charges dropped on 12 July . Al-Jassem was accused of libelling the prime minister on a talk show entitled “Who is to blame, the government or the parliament?”. Al-Fadala’s case was initiated following an official complaint from the prime minister following the activist’s claim that the prime minister was an “enemy of freedom of expression” in Kuwait. Al-Jassem was jailed after he was convicted of
slander in April 2010 in a separate case.
February 12th, 2010
An award winning Uzbek photographer sentenced to jail after a court ruled she had
insulted the nation, has been released thanks to an amnesty.
Umida Akhmedova said that she had done nothing wrong and will therefore
appeal on the verdict. Akhmedova could have faced six months in jail or two years in a labour camp.
June 10th, 2009
TV chef Gordon Ramsay has said he is “deeply mortified” by the row caused over insulting remarks he made about Australian presenter Tracy Grimshaw. Read more
here
