{"id":7821,"date":"2019-07-23T13:14:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T13:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/7821-kuwaiti-activist-detained-for-three-years-for-insulting-saudi-arabia\/"},"modified":"2019-07-23T13:14:53","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T13:14:53","slug":"kuwaiti-activist-detained-for-three-years-for-insulting-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/7821-kuwaiti-activist-detained-for-three-years-for-insulting-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuwaiti activist detained for three years for insulting Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">Kuwait&#8217;s court of cassation on Monday upheld the detention of Kuwaiti activist Mohammed Khalid al-Hajri for three years with work and access on charges of offending Saudi Arabia and<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>Kuwait&#8217;s court of cassation on Monday upheld the detention of Kuwaiti activist Mohammed Khalid al-Hajri for three years with work and access on charges of offending Saudi Arabia and its crown prince Mohammed bin Salman.<\/p>\n<p>A Kuwaiti court of appeal issued the ruling on May 21, a day after al-Hajri was arrested for a series of videos in which he rejected Saudi Arabia&#8217;s boycott of Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>The videos published by al-Hajri prompted the Saudi ambassador to Kuwait to file a complaint against him in June 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Activists launched #We_Are_All_Al-Hajri, in which they expressed solidarity with him, and asked the Emir of Kuwait to intervene and forgive him.<\/p>\n<p>It is noteworthy that al-Hajri has participated in several political programs in Kuwait and Gulf channels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kuwait&#8217;s court of cassation on Monday upheld the detention of Kuwaiti activist Mohammed Khalid al-Hajri for three years with work and access on charges of offending Saudi Arabia and\u00a0 \u00a0 Kuwait&#8217;s court of cassation on Monday upheld the detention of Kuwaiti activist Mohammed Khalid al-Hajri for three years with work and access on charges of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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