Over the weekend, Kuwait government officials sentenced Sager al-Hashash to one year of prison for posting inappropriate "tweets" on Twitter about the Gulf's nation ruler. Originally, his punishment was a total of two years in prison but, the media states that since that hearing, the officials have reduced his sentence to one year of jail time. As of this decision made Monday morning, April 29, 2013, the government officials of Kuwait have stated that they are cracking down on the use of social media and monitoring any threats that could affect the government and its people.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/kuwait-court-jail-time-twitter-insult-19064045#.UX59z6vhd0E
-Heather Krynicki
(5th blog)
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