{"id":183371,"date":"2026-04-15T15:50:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/\/2026\/04\/italia-segue-caso-del-giornalista-ahmed-shiab-eldin-detenuto-in-kuwait\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T16:38:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:38:50","slug":"italia-segue-caso-del-giornalista-ahmed-shiab-eldin-detenuto-in-kuwait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2026\/04\/italia-segue-caso-del-giornalista-ahmed-shiab-eldin-detenuto-in-kuwait\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy following closely the case of journalist Ahmed Shiab-Eldin detained in Kuwait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is following closely the case of journalist Ahmed Shiab-Eldin \u2013 affiliated with the University of Bari \u2013 who was arrested on 3 March for sharing on social media videos relating to rocket and drone launches in the context of the war in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest reportedly took place under circumstances similar to those involving dozens of other individuals who published videos deemed liable to reveal sensitive sites and thereby pose a risk to national security, in violation of Kuwaiti law.<\/p>\n<p>The Embassy of Italy in Kuwait is in contact with the local authorities, which are conducting investigations into the individuals concerned in order to rule out any malicious intent. Kuwaiti authorities have strengthened controls in the context of the ongoing crisis, and investigations have led to the dismantling of a number of operational cells affiliated with Hezbollah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is following closely the case of journalist Ahmed Shiab-Eldin \u2013 affiliated with the University of Bari \u2013 who was arrested on 3 March for sharing on social media videos relating to rocket and drone launches in the context of the war in Iran. The arrest reportedly took place under circumstances [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,6],"class_list":["post-183371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comunicati","tag-farnesina","tag-mediterraneo-e-medio-oriente"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183373,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183371\/revisions\/183373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}