Twitter rejects Kuwait request for clients’ info

The Appeals Court adjourned a case in which a Kuwaiti man seeks a 10-year jail sentence on accusations of offending Gulf rulers which was overruled, and set Sept 22, 2013 as the date for the next hearing when a ruling is expected to be made. Meanwhile, legal sources familiar with the case told Al-Qabas daily on Monday that Kuwait’s Foreign Ministry contacted Twitter’s management as per the Public Prosecution’s request in order to inquire about a number of tweets involved in the case, but the management refused to provide the Kuwaiti government with “any information about this particular case or similar cases”. The Public Prosecution had charged citizen Hamad Al-Naqqi for posting offensive remarks on Twitter on Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), in addition to rulers of Gulf Cooperation Council states. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison after the Court of First Incidence found him guilty of the charges, but the same court acquitted him from state security charges that the Public Prosecution also pressed