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Kuwaiti opposition tweeter jailed for emir insult

AFP

Kuwait’s lower court on Sunday sentenced opposition tweeter Hamed al-Khaledi to two years in jail on charges of insulting the Gulf state’s ruler, a rights activist said. “Khaledi has been sentenced to two years in jail with immediate effect,” the director of the Kuwait Society for Human Rights, Mohammad…