Kuwaiti Blogger Detained
The Kuwait blog aggregator is full today of bloggers lamenting the abduction, arrest and beating of a Kuwaiti blogger on whose website some anonymous blogger posted an “inappropriate” comment against the Emir of Kuwait. Although the blogger edited the comment out as soon as he saw it, he is still detained.
Our friend Hilaliya writes a reasoned outcry in his post State Security Arrest and several other bloggers have written impassioned outcries against this constitutionally illegal behavior.
I am betting this was an overreaction on the part of some underling, not a change in state policy. God forbid! This following so closely on the blocking of WordPress in Turkey makes this a bad week for bloggers. Turish block.
More Kuwait blogger reactions:
She’s Still Writing/Bint Bunaz
KtheKuwaiti
Savior Machine
The Stallion
N. (who has links to several articles)
Vagabond
I know this must look incestuous, all of us Kuwaiti bloggers . . .umm. . . er, meaning people blogging in Kuwait, I am not Kuwaiti . . .referring to each other, but we are many nationalities with many different readerships, and we are all trying to keep a lot of people informed.
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Why is the CIA getting involved?
It’s really sad to know that such things are happening…Does that mean we don’t have freedom of speech anymore?
Purg! You’re involved? No kidding? Why is the CIA getting involved?
Amu – I think freedom of speech has always meant we are free to be careful about what we say. I think we are free to complain, I think we are free to rant.
I think the arrenst and detainment was been a big mistake, and probably the people who committed the mistake are already embarrassed about it and trying to figure out what to do. It was not the blogger who made the offensive comment, but one of his readers.
I know many times there may be HOURS between times I check my blog, even days, when I am travelling. We cannot be held responsible for crackpots who make nasty or offensive comments. We can all do our best to make sure that they don’t stay visible for long.
And I know SAFAT is very good at eliminating bloggers who step over the line. I don’t even think it is a free-speech violation, I think it is more of a rational man thing, i.e. would most people find this behavior not appropriate for this venue – that sort of thing.
Sorry but the secret police are never embarrassed & I’ve never heard them to apologize for their ‘mistakes’.
Hope that reader’s fingers rot off with gangrene from the predator-like keyboard.
Hello. 🙂
. . . Er. . R – what reader? The reader who made the comment that got Basher arrested?
I mean like please tell me you don’t hope my fingers will rot off with gangrene!
I thought we were friends!
LOL..no way not you! Yeah I meant the moron who got Bashar arrested. 😛
Whew! thanks, R, you had me worried!