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| Subject: Kuwait gulag jails opposition tweeter Sun Jan 06, 2013 7:08 pm | |
| A Kuwaiti court has sentenced an opposition youth to two years in jail for writing tweets deemed offensive to the ruler of the oil-rich Gulf state, a rights activist says.
Rashed al-Enezi, who was in the courtroom to hear the sentence, was immediately arrested by police and taken to jail, the head of the independent Kuwait Society for Human Rights, Mohammad al-Humaidi, told AFP on Sunday.
Enezi is the first to be sentenced among dozens of tweeters, activists and former opposition lawmakers who face similar charges since the government began a clampdown on the opposition in the lead-up to elections held on December 1 last year.
The opposition has been staging regular demonstrations in protest at an amendment of the electoral law and the holding of the the parliamentary vote on the basis of the amended legislation.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/kuwait-jails-opposition-tweeter-20130106-2cbg0.html#ixzz2HFAZiamB
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