Two Kuwaiti Citizens To Stand Trial For Their Tweets

Two Kuwaiti men will be put on trial for negative tweets they made about ruling families in the region.

Reuters reports that the men insulted the ruling families of Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, as well as Kuwait’s own emir on Twitter. They will both be held for over two weeks in detention until a hearing.

One of the men to be tried is Nasser Abdul, who we wrote about earlier this month when he was detained

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