Hawzah News Agency (Kuwait) - A journalist has been sentenced by a court in Kuwait to three years in jail for two Twitter messages that offended Shia Muslims.

The Middle East Media Research Institute documents that ‘Abdallah Al-Hadlaq, a reformist who is critical of Iran and Hamas and previously expressed a positive view of Israel, was prosecuted for two tweets in 2018.

He was accused of "fanning controversies among the sectors of society," meaning the disagreements between Sunni Muslims and Shia.