KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait’s public prosecution yesterday ordered the detention of four Twitter users for 10 days for allegedly insulting the ruler of the oil-rich Gulf state, a rights group said.
The four were arrested on Wednesday and remanded in police custody pending further investigation before the prosecution issued its detention order, Kuwait Human Rights News Centre said on its Twitter account.
Three other Twitter users, including a woman, who were arrested with them were each freed on bail of $3,550.
The seven, described as opposition sympathisers, were interrogated on allegations of tweets deemed offensive and critical of the Emir H H Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah.
The clampdown on users of the social network was strongly criticised by opposition figures with a member of the scrapped 2012 parliament saying that Kuwait was becoming a “police state”.
AFP
