(MENAFN- Arab Times) KUWAIT CITY April 28 (AFP): A Kuwaiti court Tuesday sentenced an opposition activist to 10 years in jail for publishing a diagram on Twitter showing how a petrol bomb is made the court ruling said. The court convicted Sager Al-Hashash of inciting attacks on policemen providing training on the manufacture of Molotov cocktails taking part in an unlicenced protest and disobeying police orders.
The charges were based on a tweet Hashash sent in July showing a diagram on Molotov cocktails which explained how they are made. The ruling which can still be appealed was issued in absentia because he is not currently in Kuwait. Hashash a young activist was handed a 20-month jail term in January for allegedly insulting His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. Kuwaiti courts have handed down prison sentences to several opposition activists and former lawmakers for remarks deemed insulting to HH the Amir as well as other charges
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