{"id":27268,"date":"2011-09-26T15:15:08","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T14:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=27268"},"modified":"2011-09-26T15:15:08","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T14:15:08","slug":"kuwait-man-jailed-for-comments-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=27268","title":{"rendered":"Kuwait: Man jailed for comments on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunni activist Mubarak al-Bathali has been\u00a0<a title=\"AFP: Kuwait court jails tweeter for insulting Shiites\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5jcd6pEe7QG_905508PPTquenBRLw?docId=CNG.07e4e485d632e6bd3d802d6be0ffada7.171\">sentenced<\/a> to three months in jail by a <a title=\"Index: Kuwait\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/kuwait\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kuwaiti<\/a> court for comments about Shiite Muslims made on his Twitter account. A few weeks ago, he was arrested by secret police, and charged with &#8220;undermining national unity&#8221; as well as &#8220;disparaging Shiites&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunni activist Mubarak al-Bathali has been\u00a0sentenced to three months in jail by a Kuwaiti court for comments about Shiite Muslims made on his Twitter account. A few weeks ago, he was arrested by secret police, and charged with &#8220;undermining national unity&#8221; as well as &#8220;disparaging Shiites&#8221;. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,4060,585],"tags":[1958,3850,3406,2778,700],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27268"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27339,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27268\/revisions\/27339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}