GCC CRIMES CONTINUE...
In Oman, 23 activists, most of whom are imprisoned, continued their hunger strike. A delegation of elected members of Oman’s Shura Council planned to visit the detainees, pending government approval, after family members urged council head Shaikh Khalid Bin Hilal Bin Naseer al-Maawalito intervene.
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Kuwait’s appeals court upheld publisher Zayed al-Zayed‘s one month prison sentence for defaming former MP and minister Abdul Mohsin al-Midaj, but a further appeal was planned. Kuwait’s criminal court delayed the trials of two bloggers charged with either undermining or insulting the emir, released five bloggers accused of similar crimes, and charged a teacher for tweeting “remarks deemed offensive by the authorities.”