KUWAIT, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Kuwait's Sheikh Meshal al-Ahmad al-Sabah, in his first speech as emir since the death of his predecessor last week, criticised lawmakers and the government on Wednesday for ...

KUWAIT (Reuters) -Kuwait's Sheikh Meshal al-Ahmad al-Sabah, in his first speech as emir since the death of his predecessor last week, criticised lawmakers and the government on Wednesday for decisions ...

Kuwait’s Sheikh Meshal al-Ahmad al-Sabah, in his first speech as emir since the death of his predecessor last week, criticised lawmakers and the government on Wednesday for decisions he said had ...

(Kuwait City) - Kuwait carried out a major crackdown on freedom of expression and assembly during 2010, Human Rights Watch said today, in issuing its World Report 2011. The 649-page report, the ...

KUWAIT, Dec 4 (KUNA) -- The Cabinet, in its weekly meeting on Wednesday, commended His Highness the Amir Sheikh Meshal Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah's speech at the 45th GCC Summit, which Kuwait hosted on ...

Kuwait’s new emir Sheikh Meshal al-Ahmed al-Sabah on Wednesday criticized parliament and cabinet for harming national interests as he was formally sworn in before lawmakers as the country’s 17th ruler ...

WHAT is happening in Kuwait? It is worsening everyday. The country is at a standstill, as there are many conflicts either between parliamentary blocs or between members of the ruling family. On the ...

(Beirut)– Kuwaiti authorities should amend a proposed new press law that would increase state control of the news media and further curtail the right to free speech. The draft should be revised to ...

KUWAIT CITY – A Kuwait court has convicted and sentenced 16 people to two years in prison each for repeating a speech by an opposition leader previously deemed offensive to the nation's emir. Those ...

Kuwait’s new telecommunications law gives the government sweeping powers to block content, deny access to the Internet, and revoke licenses without giving reasons. Kuwait’s new telecommunications law ...

Huda al-Ajmi, teacher, is one of at least 35 people prosecuted in Kuwait for 'offending the emir' over Twitter since October 2012. Kuwaiti social media activists have been rallying behind the other ...