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Bashar Al-Sayegh is a Kuwaiti journalist for Al-Jareeda newspaper as well as a blogger. On August 19, 2007 he was arrested by plainclothes police for a comment posted on an online forum he provides ((Alommah<\/a>)). Al-Sayegh had removed that statement only 15 minutes after it was made by an anonymous author, because it defamed the Amir of Kuwait, Shaikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah ((The Kuwaiti \u00bb Free Bashar!<\/a>)). When the police arrested the journalist at Al-Jareeda\u2019s offices, his colleague Jasim Al-Qames started taking photos of the situation and was subsequently taken into custody. While Al-Qames was released one day later after blindfoldedly signing a confession using his fingerprint as a document, Al-Sayegh was held in custody for three days until he agreed to sign a confession and give the IP of the comment\u2019s author to the police ((Muslim Media Network \u00bb Held Accountable<\/a>)). Meanwhile it had been reported that he and his colleague had been beaten by the police. However, the blogger later denied that fact ((The Kuwaiti \u00bb Free Bashar!<\/a>)), supposedly to avoid further action against him and claimed Al-Qasem had been the only victim ((\u0643\u0644\u0628\u0648\u0646\u0627 \u062c\u0645\u0627\u0639\u0647 \u00bb Bashar Al-Sayegh and Jassim Al-Qames Harassed and Attacked by Secret Police in Kuwait<\/a>)).<\/p>","raw":"Bashar Al-Sayegh is a Kuwaiti journalist for Al-Jareeda newspaper as well as a blogger. On August 19, 2007 he was arrested by plainclothes police for a comment posted on an online forum he provides ((Alommah<\/a>)). Al-Sayegh had removed that statement only 15 minutes after it was made by an anonymous author, because it defamed the Amir of Kuwait, Shaikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah ((The Kuwaiti \u00bb Free Bashar!<\/a>)). When the police arrested the journalist at Al-Jareeda\u2019s offices, his colleague Jasim Al-Qames started taking photos of the situation and was subsequently taken into custody. While Al-Qames was released one day later after blindfoldedly signing a confession using his fingerprint as a document, Al-Sayegh was held in custody for three days until he agreed to sign a confession and give the IP of the comment\u2019s author to the police ((Muslim Media Network \u00bb Held Accountable<\/a>)). Meanwhile it had been reported that he and his colleague had been beaten by the police. However, the blogger later denied that fact ((The Kuwaiti \u00bb Free Bashar!<\/a>)), supposedly to avoid further action against him and claimed Al-Qasem had been the only victim ((\u0643\u0644\u0628\u0648\u0646\u0627 \u062c\u0645\u0627\u0639\u0647 \u00bb Bashar Al-Sayegh and Jassim Al-Qames Harassed and Attacked by Secret Police in Kuwait<\/a>)).","class":"body","label":"background","is_multiple":false},"path":{"id":"path","content":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/bashar-al-sayegh","raw":null,"class":"path","label":"permalink","is_multiple":false},"country":{"id":"country","content":"Kuwait","raw":"kw","class":"country","label":"country","is_multiple":false},"latitude":{"id":"latitude","content":"29.382175","raw":"29.382175","class":"latitude","label":"lat","is_multiple":false},"longitude":{"id":"longitude","content":"47.416992","raw":"47.416992","class":"longitude","label":"lon","is_multiple":false}},{"title":{"id":"title","content":"Hamad Al Khalidi","raw":"Hamad Al Khalidi","class":"title","label":"name","is_multiple":false},"field_portrait_fid":{"id":"field_portrait_fid","content":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/962541985.jpg","raw":"580","class":"field-portrait-fid","label":"portrait","is_multiple":false},"field_status_value":{"id":"field_status_value","content":"Under Arrest","raw":"Under Arrest","class":"field-status-value","label":"status","is_multiple":false},"field_arrest_value":{"id":"field_arrest_value","content":"2013-03-31","raw":"2013-03-31 00:00:00","class":"field-arrest-value","label":"date_from","is_multiple":false},"field_arrest_value2":{"id":"field_arrest_value2","content":"2013-03-31","raw":null,"class":"field-arrest-value2","label":"date_to","is_multiple":false},"field_blog_value":{"id":"field_blog_value","content":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HAMED_ALKHALDI","raw":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HAMED_ALKHALDI","class":"field-blog-value","label":"blog_url","is_multiple":false},"body":{"id":"body","content":" Sentenced on Sunday 31 March for 2 years in jail with forced labor with immediate effect by a lower court on charges of insulting the Emir of Kuwait on Twitter. He was jailed pending an appeal which should be filed on Monday 8 April.<\/p>","raw":"Sentenced on Sunday 31 March for 2 years in jail with forced labor with immediate effect by a lower court on charges of insulting the Emir of Kuwait on Twitter. He was jailed pending an appeal which should be filed on Monday 8 April.","class":"body","label":"background","is_multiple":false},"path":{"id":"path","content":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/hamad-al-khalidi","raw":null,"class":"path","label":"permalink","is_multiple":false},"city":{"id":"city","content":"Kuwait","raw":"Kuwait","class":"city","label":"city","is_multiple":false},"country":{"id":"country","content":"Kuwait","raw":"kw","class":"country","label":"country","is_multiple":false},"latitude":{"id":"latitude","content":"29.369722","raw":"29.369722","class":"latitude","label":"lat","is_multiple":false},"longitude":{"id":"longitude","content":"47.978333","raw":"47.978333","class":"longitude","label":"lon","is_multiple":false}},{"title":{"id":"title","content":"Mohammad Abdul Qadir Al Jasem","raw":"Mohammad Abdul Qadir Al Jasem","class":"title","label":"name","is_multiple":false},"field_portrait_fid":{"id":"field_portrait_fid","content":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/mohammad_abdul_qadir_al_jasem.jpg","raw":"440","class":"field-portrait-fid","label":"portrait","is_multiple":false},"field_status_value":{"id":"field_status_value","content":"Released","raw":"Released","class":"field-status-value","label":"status","is_multiple":false},"field_arrest_value":{"id":"field_arrest_value","content":"2010-11-23","raw":"2010-11-23 00:00:00","class":"field-arrest-value","label":"date_from","is_multiple":false},"field_arrest_value2":{"id":"field_arrest_value2","content":"2011-01-22","raw":"2011-01-22 00:00:00","class":"field-arrest-value2","label":"date_to","is_multiple":false},"field_blog_value":{"id":"field_blog_value","content":"http:\/\/www.aljasem.org\/","raw":"http:\/\/www.aljasem.org\/","class":"field-blog-value","label":"blog_url","is_multiple":false},"field_campaign_url_value":{"id":"field_campaign_url_value","content":"http:\/\/www.aljasemcase.com\/","raw":"http:\/\/www.aljasemcase.com\/","class":"field-campaign-url-value","label":"campaign_url","is_multiple":false},"body":{"id":"body","content":" Mohammed Abdulqader Aljasem, 54, is a prominent Kuwaiti lawyer, journalist and blogger, known for his candid political analysis & criticism of the Kuwaiti government. In 1997, he became the editor-in-chief of Al-Watan Daily Newspaper and later became the founding editor-in-cheif of the arabic edition of Newsweek & Foreign Policy magazine in an effort to increase public awareness in Arabs.<\/p>\n Aljasem was an observer on behalf of AMNESTY International in Bahrain and Egypt. He also produced & presented a political TV show called \u201cAl-Majlis\u201d in Al-Hurra channel interviewing influential politicians, writes and activists to raise important issues that were never discussed in the arab region.<\/p>\n In 2005, Aljasem created \u201cMeezan<\/a>\u201d \u2013 a website dedicated to provide his opinion and analysis of the Kuwaiti Government and the ruling Al-Sabah family. Through his weekly articles, Aljasem criticized the overall deterioration of the government and accused the Prime Minister Sh. Nasser Mohammed Al-Sabah of mismanagement and corruption.<\/p>\n According to Gulf News<\/a>, Kuwait's criminal court on Monday sentenced blogger writer and lawyer Mohammad Abdul Qadir Al Jasem<\/a> to one year in prison in the case filed against him by Shaikh Nasser Al Mohammad Al Subah, the prime minister, for writing an article deemed highly critical of him. The article, Nasser XVII<\/a>, was posted on Mohammad's website.<\/p>\n Al Jassem was sentenced also on 1st April, 2010, to six months in prison for \u201cslander\u201d against the prime minister. The court however suspended the sentence pending an appeal, fixing bail at 5,000 dinars (about 11,500 euros).<\/p>","raw":"Mohammed Abdulqader Aljasem, 54, is a prominent Kuwaiti lawyer, journalist and blogger, known for his candid political analysis & criticism of the Kuwaiti government. In 1997, he became the editor-in-chief of Al-Watan Daily Newspaper and later became the founding editor-in-cheif of the arabic edition of Newsweek & Foreign Policy magazine in an effort to increase public awareness in Arabs. From Wikipedia<\/a>: Nasser Abul is a Kuwaiti online democracy activist. On 7 July 2011, he was imprisoned by the government of Kuwait on state security charges, following a series of tweets in support of Arab Spring protesters in Bahrain. Sheikh Abdullah Mohammed bin Ahmed Al Fateh Al Khalifa of Bahrain's ruling Al Khalifa family thanked the Kuwaiti government for Abul's arrest and also announced his intention to file a private libel suit against Abul.\nFollowing his arrest, Abul stated that the most inflammatory tweets on his account had been posted by hackers, and that when he became aware of the tweets, he had deleted them with his iPhone. Abul has alleged that he was beaten and subjected to sleep deprivation in the first two days of his detention; according to his lawyer, Abul was also denied counsel for several hearings, denied family visits, and repeatedly insulted by guards for being a Shia.] One week after his arrest, Amnesty International<\/a> named him a prisoner of conscience and called for his immediate release. Human Rights Watch<\/a> also demanded that the charges against him be dropped, with a representative stating that \"Kuwait has sunk to a new low by arresting people just for posting criticism of governments on the internet.\" On 19 September, Kuwaiti MP Faisal Al-Duwaisan, Chairman of the Human Rights Committee, requested Abul's release, calling it \"a shame to taint Kuwait\u2019s human rights history\".\nOn 27 September 2011, Abul was released from Kuwait Central Prison.<\/p>","raw":"From Wikipedia<\/a>: Nasser Abul is a Kuwaiti online democracy activist. On 7 July 2011, he was imprisoned by the government of Kuwait on state security charges, following a series of tweets in support of Arab Spring protesters in Bahrain. Sheikh Abdullah Mohammed bin Ahmed Al Fateh Al Khalifa of Bahrain's ruling Al Khalifa family thanked the Kuwaiti government for Abul's arrest and also announced his intention to file a private libel suit against Abul. Is a Kuwaiti royal who was arrested for expressing political views on Twitter deemed supportive of the opposition which staged protests against a government proposal to amend the electoral law--a move seen by the opposition as an attempt to produce a pro-government parliament in the December 1, 2012 general election.<\/p>\n
Aljasem was an observer on behalf of AMNESTY International in Bahrain and Egypt. He also produced & presented a political TV show called \u201cAl-Majlis\u201d in Al-Hurra channel interviewing influential politicians, writes and activists to raise important issues that were never discussed in the arab region.
In 2005, Aljasem created \u201cMeezan<\/a>\u201d \u2013 a website dedicated to provide his opinion and analysis of the Kuwaiti Government and the ruling Al-Sabah family. Through his weekly articles, Aljasem criticized the overall deterioration of the government and accused the Prime Minister Sh. Nasser Mohammed Al-Sabah of mismanagement and corruption.
According to Gulf News<\/a>, Kuwait's criminal court on Monday sentenced blogger writer and lawyer Mohammad Abdul Qadir Al Jasem<\/a> to one year in prison in the case filed against him by Shaikh Nasser Al Mohammad Al Subah, the prime minister, for writing an article deemed highly critical of him. The article, Nasser XVII<\/a>, was posted on Mohammad's website.
Al Jassem was sentenced also on 1st April, 2010, to six months in prison for \u201cslander\u201d against the prime minister. The court however suspended the sentence pending an appeal, fixing bail at 5,000 dinars (about 11,500 euros).
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