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KUWAIT CITY: A Kuwait court on Monday sentenced three members of the Al-Sabah ruling family and four others to jail terms for insulting the emir and the judiciary on the Internet.
The court sentenced the three royals and two others to five years each, a sixth man for one year and handed down a 10-year term to a seventh man in absentia.
The royals include Sheikh Athbi al-Fahad Al-Sabah, a nephew of the Gulf state’s emir and the former head of the secret service police.
He is also the younger brother of international sports figure Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad Al-Sabah.
Published in Dawn, May 31st, 2016
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May 31, 2016 06:19pm
So much for the freedom of expression.
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