Twitter User Gets 5 Years In Jail For Defaming Saudi Arabia In Kuwait

07 June 2022 Kuwait

Kuwaiti courts have sentenced a user of Twitter to five years in prison after finding him guilty of insulting Saudi Arabia online, a local newspaper reports.

"The tweeter was also found guilty of spreading false news by the Criminal Court, Al Rai said.

In Kuwait, the defendant has been identified as Salman Al Khaldi by the portal Media Court.

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain have all filed charges against Kuwaiti writer Abdullah Al Saleh over his defamatory tweets. He has since been sentenced to 30 years in prison in a series of cases.

All three countries belong to the Gulf Cooperation Council, along with Qatar, Kuwait, and Oman.

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