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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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Court clears writer and journalist Al-Jassem

A Kuwait City court has acquitted writer and journalist Mohamed Abdel Qader Al-Jassem on charges of defamation, inciting the government’s (...)

Published on 20 July 2010 Read

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Journalist Mohammed Abdel Qader Al-Jassem’s trial postponed again

Detained journalist Mohammed Abdel Qader Al-Jassem’s trial was adjourned again today, this time until 28 June. The judge granted the adjournment (...)

Published on 21 June 2010 Read

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Media forbidden to cover dismantling of Iranian spy ring

Reporters Without Borders condemns the prosecutor-general’s order forbidding the Kuwaiti media to publish any more reports about the dismantling (...)

Published on 10 May 2010 Read

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Journalist gets six-month jail term in continuing judicial harassment

A Kuwait City court today sentenced leading writer and journalist Mohammed Abdel Qader Al-Jassem to six months in prison on a charge of (...)

Published on 1 April 2010 Read

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Journalist and three newspapers fined a total 30,000 euros in separate cases

Reporters Without Borders deplores the fines which a Kuwaiti criminal court imposed on a journalist, three newspapers and two members of (...)

Published on 10 March 2010 Read

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Draft amendments to press law threaten press freedom

Reporters Without Borders today urged the Kuwaiti prime minister and parliament not to back amendments to the publications law that it said would (...)

Published on 14 January 2010 Read

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Journalist freed after finally agreeing to pay bail

After being held by police for 12 days at the headquarters of the criminal investigation department in Kuwait City, journalist Mohammed Al-Jassem (...)

Published on 3 December 2009 Read