Index on Censorship » Lawrence al-Rashidi http://www.indexoncensorship.org for free expression Fri, 17 May 2013 16:22:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 for free expression Index on Censorship no for free expression Index on Censorship » Lawrence al-Rashidi http://www.indexoncensorship.org/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/Free_Speech_Bites_Logo.jpg http://www.indexoncensorship.org Kuwait: Blogger sentenced to ten years in prison http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/05/kuwait-blogger-sentenced-to-ten-years-in-prison/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/05/kuwait-blogger-sentenced-to-ten-years-in-prison/#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 15:05:30 +0000 Alice Purkiss http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=36541 A Kuwaiti blogger has been sentence to ten years in prison and fined 1000 Kuwaiti dinars for ”insulting the Prince and his powers” in poems uploaded on YouTube. Lawrence al-Rashidi was initially accused of ”spreading false news and rumors about the situation in the country”  and ”calling on tribes to confront the ruling regime, and bring down its transgressions” in [...]

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]]> Kuwaiti blogger has been sentence to ten years in prison and fined 1000 Kuwaiti dinars for ”insulting the Prince and his powers” in poems uploaded on YouTube. Lawrence al-Rashidi was initially accused of ”spreading false news and rumors about the situation in the country”  and ”calling on tribes to confront the ruling regime, and bring down its transgressions” in June 2011. The blogger is also being tried as a result of posts on Twitter, deemed to be “an insult to the princely identity” by authorities.

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