Kuwait’s Ministry of Interior has arrested two individuals accused of publishing videos mocking the Kuwaiti Armed Forces and the country’s air defence efforts on social media, a move that comes amid heightened security concerns and intense US–Israel-Iran conflict. The arrests signal Kuwait’s increasing enforcement of laws related to public order and national security as geopolitical tensions escalate across the Gulf following the US–Israel war with Iran.
According to an official statement, the suspects created and circulated visual content that ridiculed the armed forces and disparaged the performance of Kuwait’s air defence systems. Authorities described the material as harmful to the prestige of national institutions and potentially damaging to public morale at a time when maintaining unity and security is paramount.
