Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI)

Among the demands expressed by the rights organisations is the immediate release of human rights activist Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, whose health is severely compromised after 50 days of hunger strike.

While covering a meeting that brought together a number of political parties, Lotfi Hajji was expelled for his political views and assaulted outside of the meeting hall.

Walid Abu El Kheir received a notice stating that he was forbidden from leaving the country for security reasons, two days prior to a scheduled trip to the United States.

Mohammed Abdul Razzaq Al-Siddiq, one of seven activists who has had his nationality revoked, was arrested after he published a statement on his Twitter page criticizing the latest statements by the Governor of Sharjah, Sultan Al Qassimi.

After the authorities seized all copies of his book Questions of the Revolution, author Sheikh Salman Ben-Fahd al-Odah released the book on his website and via Twitter.

The article, which was published in the al-Arab al-Yawm newspaper, was critical of unemployment, corruption, and the government’s handling of recent protests in the city of al-Tafila.

Kuwait is not the first state that has blocked “al-Watan”‘s website: it is blocked within Saudi Arabia and Syria, and was blocked in both Egypt and Tunisia during their revolutions.

Beni Bouayach, one of the most poverty-stricken regions of the country, has been the site of regular demonstrations since the beginning of March, where protesters have called for equality and social justice in the face of what they deem to be exclusion practiced by the authorities.