A Court Case to Follow
December 26, 2007
Sometimes i hate how hard it is to follow court cases in Kuwait
because some of them are realy important
One Case that just came up is very important to all bloggers and webmasters in kuwait because it will set a precedent
From Alaan news site
وجهت النيابة العامة صباح اليوم رسميا للدكتور سعد بن طفله العجمي-ناشر جريدة - اتهاما بالإساءة إلى مؤسسي شركة أمانة، وذلك بموجب قانون المطبوعات والنشر رقم 3 لسنة 2006. وقد دفع الدكتور بن طفله بعدم اختصاص النيابة النظر في هذا الاتهام بناء على:
1. عدم الاختصاص القانوني لأن قانون المطبوعات والنشر لا يشمل النشر على شبكة الانترنت.
2. عدم الاختصاص المكاني لأن الحاوي الرقمي (السيرفر SERVER ) لموقع جريدة الان موجود في الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية.
The Prosecutors office today morning officially accused Dr Saad Bin Tiflah al Ajmee - the publisher of al alaan - an accusation of abuse toward the Amana company founders , under the press & publishing Law of 2006 , Dr Saad Claimed that Prosecutors had no jurisdiction to consider this accusation for these reasons
1- Lack of legal jurisdiction :The press & publication law does not cover online publishing
2- Lack of jurisdiction :The server which host Alaan online newspaper is in the USA
That would set a precedent for all us bloggers ( as far as i know , most blogs use Blogger or wordpress and some use private server neither of which are in Kuwait )
Posted by Forzaq8 under General, Political, websites, Kuwait |
they can still nail him for slander or defamation of character no matter what medium was used since he claims to be the one who did it anyways so his argument is moot anyways
Comment by TAT — 26/12/2007 @ 12:12 pm
i doubt they will get to a point and ban blogger or wordpress. Even though, they probably just threw in the fact that the server is in the US for slander and they will lose that for sure
Comment by Fonzy — 26/12/2007 @ 2:33 pm
Holy Smokes. Thanks for bringing this up. I haven’t seen a single word on this case before.
Comment by Intlxpatr — 26/12/2007 @ 10:15 pm
The issue of internet law has been raised times and times. The government did nothing about it. Now, they are the first to go and act without it, and they want to rush and apply the law of publishing on internet sites, which is a totally different thing.
Thanks for sharing the story
Comment by Bashar — 27/12/2007 @ 6:19 pm
wohooooo…..!!!
Comment by EXzombie — 27/12/2007 @ 9:23 pm