‘Outrageous’: American journalist detained in Kuwait after posting Iran war video
MSNBC·2026-04-16 01:30
being held in a foreign prison for the crime of posting a publicly available KUWAITI AMERICAN JOURNALIST AHMED SHEHAB ELDIN HAS BEEN DETAINED IN A PRISON IN KUWAIT FOR SIX WEEKS NOW FOLLOWING A CRACKDOWN ON ONLINE SPEECH. IT'S NOT CLEAR EXACTLY WHY HE WAS arrested, but the Committee to Protect Journalists notes that on March 2nd, a few days after the U .S. launched a war in Iran, he published a geolocated video verified by CNN showing a U .S.fighter jet crash near a U .S. air base in Kuwait. You may have ac ...