Kuwait: Crazy Week for Bloggers · Global Voices
Abdullatif AlOmar

Kuwaiti bloggers had a crazy week, which started with an earthquake, or rather a small tremor, early on Saturday morning. The next day a blogger was arrested for a comment an anonymous reader left on his online forum. The week culminated with a fire at a local hospital and the resignation of Kuwait's first female minister.
Forzaq8 talks about how some people were blaming the government for it.
“Most news outlets and couple of blogs are saying there was an earthquake yesterday. Normally, I’m sleeping but yesterday I stayed up late. I never felt anything , yet one of the news outlets is saying that people get out of their apartment building scared,” he wrote.
Then Sunday rolled over and another earthquake hit the country. This time its was our freedom that was shaking.
A Kuwaiti reporter, who also operates a blog, was arrested  by the State security as covered reported earlier by GV. He was then released on Wednesday – after spending around three days held up in a cell and interrogated.
This occupied most of the blog talk this week – but there were other discussions.
Grey over Grey Fort complains about music selection on the local FM station (government operated).
“Just the fact that Super station plays same music at the same time everyday,” he notes.
Amer at Hilaliya talks about the effect of the decision to bar the participation of foreign companies in the bidding for Kuwait's third mobile operator.
The above piece of news doesn't bode well for the general consumer. Basically what it means is this: investors behind MTC and Watanaiya and other local entities have been offered a bigger chance of controlling a chunk of the new company, thereby instigating another telephony monopoly in Kuwait.
So with the earth shaking at the start of the week, followed by an attack on freedom, the week ended with a boom. A fire broke out at a hospital, leading to the resignation of the first Kuwaiti female minister.
Kuwait Doll speaks about something she saw on TV and how it made her feel.