Twitter offender remanded in custody

KUWAIT: The public prosecution yesterday remanded in custody a number of suspects charged in a case related in operating a Twitter account under the handle ‘Chabreet Seyassi 2’ (political matches 2) and using it to slander His Highness the Amir and other Kuwaiti figures. The court also summoned lawyer Falah Al-Ajmi and media figure Bader Abdulaziz for the same case. Police had arrested a man who allegedly operated the controversial account, and who has been identified as the brother of Waleed Fares, a man arrested earlier on charges of making similar offensive remarks using a Twitter account named ‘Chabreet Seyassi’ (political matches ).

Teachers sentenced

The misdemeanor court yesterday sentenced two expatriate teachers working for a private school to two weeks in prison with labor over their responsibility for the death of a child. The kid, named Nawaf Al-Azmi, had drowned in a swimming pool under their supervision at the school. The victim’s family attorney had demanded maximum punishment for the two teachers.

National support

Sources at the Manpower Public Authority said that a special committee reviewing the grievances filed by national laborers working for the private sector for suspending the payment of their ‘national labor support allowances, has met with 20 persons and discussed their grievances. The payments were suspended under the claim that the workers did not update their information with the authority’s systems, the sources said. The sources stressed that all grievances were reviewed within a maximum of 15 days because ministerial decisions ban any retroactive payments.