Kuwait: Journalists Out on Bail

Journalist and lawyer Mohammad Abdulqader al-Jassem, was granted bail 12 days after being detained on “charges of slandering the Gulf emirate’s prime minister,” according to AFP. Jassem and Kuwaiti political activists claim he was only criticizing the premier’s conduct of government business and that he was illegally detained by the public prosecutor’s office, for which he intends to file a lawsuit against the prosecutor who ordered his detention.