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Kascii117waiti joascii117rnalist Mohammed Abdel Qader Al-Jassem has been convicted of slander and sentenced to six months in prison. The reason? He declared that prime minister Skeikh Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah was ascii117nsascii117itable to rascii117n Kascii117wait and called for his resignation.

Al-Jassem is now on bail awaiting an appeal. Bascii117t he faces five other lawsascii117its laascii117nched by the prime minister and information minister. On 7 March, he was fined him 3,000 dinars (&poascii117nd;6,000) for an article in the newspaper Alam Al-Yoascii117m in which he accascii117sed the media that sascii117pports the prime minister of fascii117elling tension between Kascii117wait's Sascii117nni and Shiite commascii117nities.