Currently serving time: Rashed Alenizi

Rashed Alenizi is currently serving a 20 month sentence in prison for tweets found to be insulting to the Emir.

With the four months he has served, Alenizi, 27, is today the second longest serving political prisoner in Kuwait's history.

Alenizi, a political activist known for organizing anti-government rallies and demonstrations, was charged over three tweets:

"A coward runs when he feels his orders might threaten his security"

"It's hard for the descendants of rot to understand Musalam Albarrak"*

Read Rashed Alenizi's full first degree court decision here [Arabic].

Watch Alenizi discuss his mistreatment by the police here [Arabic].

Watch Alenizi speak at an event following his release from custody here [Arabic].

Watch Alenizi lead a chant in a demonstration against ousted PM HH Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad in 2011 here [Arabic].

*His lawyers argued that the meaning was different than the one written above.