KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait authorities have detained several online activists allegedly for comments deemed offensive to Saudi Arabia’s late King Abdullah, a rights group and activists said on Thursday.
Secret police on Wednesday arrested prominent rights and online activist Mohammad al-Ajmi outside his home for “unknown reasons,” the National Committee for Monitoring Violations, an independent rights group of which Ajmi is a member, said on its Twitter account.
Online activists and former MPs said on Twitter that Ajmi was being held for questioning over Tweets he made on Saudi Arabia.
Nawaf al-Hendal, a leading rights activist, said at least four others had been detained by state security for tweets deemed offensive to King Abdullah who died on Friday. Hendal, currently in Geneva, also said on his Twitter account that arrest warrants have been issued against him and five other tweeters for the same reason.
Published in Dawn, January 30th, 2015
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