African arrested & deported for insulting Kuwait, during a rant against the weather

Two Egyptian expats living in Kuwait will be deported - one was found guilty of harassing women in public while the other insulted Kuwait, during a rant against the weather, local media reported.

The families of the two expats were requested to bring two travel tickets and the passports of suspects in preparation for their deportation. The first suspect was accused of harassing girls in public in Hawally area, and was arrested after several reports were filed against him. 

The source said that the expat, in his thirties, denied the charges brought against him at the beginning but investigations proved otherwise. 

Meanwhile, the other expat was accused of insulting Kuwait and uttering inappropriate phrases in a video clip shared widely on social media, and sarcastically expressing his dissatisfaction with the weather and the dust storm. 

In a dashboard camera video posted on the social media app TikTok, the man can be heard complaining about the blinding sandstorm that has engulfed Kuwait for the past few days. 

'I'm inside a dust storm right now, I literally can't see anything in front of me,' the man says, showing the dust coating the road like a thick fog. 'Fine, Kuwait, fine,' he adds, with an expletive in Arabic. 

The clip went viral on Twitter, racking up tens of thousands of views. 

The arrest underscored the country's restrictions on expression and drew criticism on social media over his detention. 

Some social media users, who saw the arrest as a sign of Kuwait's crackdown on free speech and mistreatment of migrant workers, showed their support for the Egyptian man by posting their own videos insulting the weather. 

Egyptians constitute the second-largest expat community in Kuwait, after Indians.

Culled From DailyMail & Gulf News.