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Journalists could be fined a million dollars for criticizing emir

Published on 10 April 2013Read

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Journalists in danger

Alarm about Kuwait’s recent violations of media freedom

Published on 7 March 2013Read

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Authorities take aim at Scope TV

Reporters Without borders is shocked at the imposition by a Kuwaiti court of a fine of 500,000 dinars (approximately 1,360,000 euros) on the (...)

Published on 4 May 2012 Read

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Six-month prison sentence for newspaper editor

Reporters Without Borders is very concerned about the six-month prison sentence that a Kuwait City court imposed on Abdul Hussein Al-Sultan, the (...)

Published on 14 March 2012 Read

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Crackdown continues in Bahrain, bloggers go on trial in Emirates

BAHRAIN Regime officials have reportedly taken over the Facebook and Twitter pages of Rasad News, a major source of news about human rights (...)

Published on 16 June 2011 Read

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Journalists targeted by governments desperate to control news

LIBYA Reporters Without Borders has learned that Fatma Ben Dhaou, a Tunisian journalist who had gone to Libya for the newspaper Le Quotidien, (...)

Published on 23 March 2011 Read

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Blogger freed after supreme court overturns conviction

Reporters Without Borders hails today’s decision by Kuwait’s supreme court to overturn lawyer and netizen Mohamed Abdel Qader Al-Jassem’s (...)

Published on 24 January 2011 Read

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Government closes Al Jazeera’s Kuwait City bureau

Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns the government’s closure of the Kuwait City bureau of the Doha-based satellite TV station Al Jazeera (...)

Published on 14 December 2010 Read

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TV station owner facing possible life sentence or death penalty also exposed to mob violence

Reporters Without Borders condemns an armed attack on Kuwait City-based Scope TV, which was overrun by about 150 people brandishing knives and (...)

Published on 19 October 2010 Read

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Trial of Mohamed al-Jassem adjourned

Kuwait City’s criminal court decided on 20 September to adjourn until 18 October the trial of journalist and writer Mohamed Abdel Qader al-Jassem (...)

Published on 22 September 2010 Read