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Prominent HRD detained, released on condition to sign pledge
Published at
18.09.2024
Country
Kuwait
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- HRD detained
- HRD prosecuted
- release of HRDs

Former National Assembly candidate sentenced to prison, exiled blogger targeted
Published at
30.06.2024
Country
Kuwait
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- minority groups
- transnational repression
- harassment
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted

Prominent Bedoon Rights Defender Mohammed Al-Barghash sentenced to three years in prison with hard labour
Published at
16.04.2024
Country
Kuwait
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- minority groups
- intimidation
- HRD detained
- negative court ruling
- criminal defamation
- censorship
- HRD prosecuted

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

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

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

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

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

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

Poetry and protestors under attack in Kuwait
Published at
15.07.2021
Country
Kuwait
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- travel ban
- journalist detained
- enabling law

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

Invasive COVID-19 tracing apps pose a threat to civic freedoms
Published at
12.10.2020
Country
Kuwait
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- surveillance

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

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

Website blocked and HRD's twitter account hacked
Published at
07.12.2018
Country
Kuwait
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- censorship
- internet restriction

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

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

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

Kuwait authorities sentence 67 people to prison
Published at
18.12.2017
Country
Kuwait
Category
Latest Developments
Tags:
- HRD prosecuted

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