Kuwait: Shia Twitter User Arrested

It has never happened before in Kuwait that a Twitter user was arrested for what he wrote online until a Nasser Abul (@NasserAbuL), a young Shia Kuwaiti, was detained three days ago. It only happened once before, that a Kuwaiti Twitter user called Mishari Buyabis (@mbuyabis) was questioned by state security police but not arrested, for his criticism of the government. The news took the Kuwaiti cyber space by storm on the morning of June 10 suggesting that Abul was arrested by state security police for threatening national security and was not allowed to see his family or his lawyer. Many tweeps from Kuwait have condemned this act saying it is illegal, but many unknown netizens complimented it since Abul is known for his Shia extremism using dirty language online and supporting the Syrian regime while criticizing the Bahraini and Saudi regimes. The situation, simply, was turned into an online sectarian war.

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