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Crackdown on Bedoon Rights Defenders unabating, Draft Law to restrict Freedom of Expression
- Published at
- 17.10.2023
- Country
- Kuwait
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- restrictive law
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted
- minority groups
- harassment
- HRD detained
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Bloggers face retaliation for peaceful online activism
- Published at
- 13.07.2023
- Country
- Kuwait
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- intimidation
- harassment
- HRD detained
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted
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Kuwaiti authorities deport writer and Bedoon rights defender Dr Mona Kareem
- Published at
- 25.04.2023
- Country
- Kuwait
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- harassment
- travel ban
- minority groups
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Authorities continue targeting the Bedoon Community
- Published at
- 23.09.2022
- Country
- Kuwait
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- minority groups
- protestor(s) detained
- criminal defamation
- HRD acquitted
- protest
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Blogger faces lengthy prison sentence & risk of torture if forcibly returned to Kuwait
- Published at
- 10.05.2022
- Country
- Kuwait
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- minority groups
- criminal defamation
- HRD acquitted
- positive court ruling
- protest
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authorities repress the Bedoon Community & subject transgender woman to judicial harassment
- Published at
- 29.10.2021
- Country
- Kuwait
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- LGBTI
- minority groups
- harassment
- censorship
- negative court ruling
- protest
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Poetry and protestors under attack in Kuwait
- Published at
- 15.07.2021
- Country
- Kuwait
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- travel ban
- journalist detained
- enabling law
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Blogger Musaed Al-Musallam facing extradition after Bosnia & Herzegovina reject asylum request
- Published at
- 12.03.2021
- Country
- Kuwait
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- HRD detained
- minority groups
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Invasive COVID-19 tracing apps pose a threat to civic freedoms
- Published at
- 12.10.2020
- Country
- Kuwait
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- surveillance
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HRDs, journalists face a sustained campaign of interrogation and detention
- Published at
- 11.05.2020
- Country
- Kuwait
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- negative court ruling
- release of HRDs
- minority groups
- intimidation
- censorship
- HRD detained
- HRD prosecuted
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Kuwait fails to implement UPR recommendations, HRDs defending Bedoon rights systematically targeted
- Published at
- 15.10.2019
- Country
- Kuwait
- Category
- Latest Developments
Tags:
- minority groups
- HRD detained
- protest
- internet restriction
- HRD acquitted
- censorship
- protestor(s) detained
- HRD prosecuted