A lower court in Kuwait sentenced a Shia tweeter to 10 years in jail on Monday on charges of insulting Prophet Mohammed (PBUH), his wife and companions, his lawyer Khaled al-Shatti said. “We plan to challenge the ruling against my client Hamad al-Naqi in the appeals court and we are very optimistic that the higher court will cancel the sentence,” Shatti told AFP. Naqi, 22, was also charged with insulting the Gulf regimes of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain and for spreading false news that undermined Kuwait’s image abroad. The charges were based on a number of tweets on his Twitter account, but Naqi told the interrogators that his account had been hacked, the lawyer said. Naqi was arrested about three months ago and has been behind bars ever since.
