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Kuwait blocks terrorـlinked Web sites |
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Saturday, 26 September 2009 00:23 |
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Kuwait has blocked a number of Internet blogs and Web sites with links to "terror" cells and groups, a top official said in comments published on Friday.
"The ministry has blocked blogs ...used by some to communicate with terror cells and extremist groups,"Communications Ministry undersecretary Abdulmohsen AlـMazeedi told Kuwait''s AnـNahar newspaper.
He said the ministry has also blocked "sites deemed offensive to Almighty God and to His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah AlـAhmad AlـSabah and which undermined national unity," in addition to sites promoting pornography. Mazeedi said the ministry was applying the law and "aims to preserve Islamic values." However before blocking any site, the ministry takes permission from the Public Prosecution.
A number of MPs have described the ministry''s monitoring of blogs as a breach of the Constitution and threatened to question the communications minister in Parliament.
Last year, the Public Prosecution questioned Mohammed Abdulqader AlـJassem for writing an article on his Web site that was deemed offensive to the country''s crown prince.
In 2007, blogger and journalist Bashar AlـSayegh was detained for two days after comments deemed offensive to the Gulf state''s ruler were posted on his Web site.
The man, who posted the comments, a Kuwaiti citizen, was jailed for two years
alwatan Daily
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