· January, 2011

Stories about Kuwait from January, 2011

Kuwait: MPs Expose More Police Torture

  23 January 2011

Desert Girl on Kuwait draws our attention to police torture in this post. “My heart goes out to the families of the victims. Imagine being a mother and reading about how this happened to your child? In their own country,” she writes.

Lebanon: Bloggers Support Tunisian Protests against “Arab Pinochet”

  11 January 2011

Lebanese bloggers have joined the chorus of concern over the Tunisian riots that have thus far claimed 24 lives. Sympathy and support is extended to the Tunisian youth protesting the authoritarianism, corruption, and poor economic management of President Zine el Abidine ben Ali, dubbed the "Arab Pinochet" by Lebanese blogger, the Angry Arab.