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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
Poetry and protestors under attack in Kuwait Published at 15.07.2021 Country Kuwait Category Latest Developments Tags: travel ban journalist detained enabling law Read more
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 Read more
Invasive COVID-19 tracing apps pose a threat to civic freedoms Published at 12.10.2020 Country Kuwait Category Latest Developments Tags: surveillance Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
Website blocked and HRD's twitter account hacked Published at 07.12.2018 Country Kuwait Category Latest Developments Tags: censorship internet restriction Read more
NGO faces shut down, as blogger is sentenced for tweet Published at 05.10.2018 Country Kuwait Category Latest Developments Tags: self censorship censorship CSO closure intimidation Read more
Release of HRDs involved in 2011 storming of National Assembly Published at 20.04.2018 Country Kuwait Category Latest Developments Tags: HRD prosecuted release of HRDs Read more
Worrying new law could threaten social media users' free expression Published at 09.02.2018 Country Kuwait Category Latest Developments Tags: censorship journalist detained restrictive law internet restriction Read more
Kuwait authorities sentence 67 people to prison Published at 18.12.2017 Country Kuwait Category Latest Developments Tags: HRD prosecuted Read more
UN urges Kuwait to investigate use of excessive force against peaceful Bedoon protesters Published at 19.10.2017 Country Kuwait Category Latest Developments Tags: indigenous groups excessive force minority groups Read more
HRD Abdulhakim Al-Fadhli released after being imprisoned for peaceful protest Published at 22.08.2017 Country Kuwait Category Latest Developments Tags: minority groups restrictive law release of HRDs Read more
'Walking for Her' demonstrators threatened, harassed and defamed Published at 28.04.2017 Country Kuwait Category Latest Developments Tags: women intimidation harassment HRD detained HRD threatened public vilification Read more
Kuwait continues to crack down on HRDs Published at 03.03.2017 Country Kuwait Category Latest Developments Tags: protest criminal defamation harassment censorship women Read more
