Kuwaiti American journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin has been held in a Kuwaiti prison for six weeks. He was arrested on March 3 in Kuwait City and faces prosecution in a special tribunal. On March 2, he shared photos and videos of a U.S. fighter jet that crashed in Kuwait on his Substack page, content that was not exclusive to him and had appeared on other platforms. Kuwaiti authorities have charged Shihab-Eldin with spreading false information, harming national security and misusing his cellphone, which the Committee to Protect Journalists describes as “vague and overly broad accusations that are routinely used to silence independent journalists.” His detention is part of a wider crackdown on online speech in Kuwait and other Gulf countries during the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. In the United Arab Emirates, authorities say police detained 375 people across Abu Dhabi over the course of the war for filming and disseminating what officials called false information on social media. Shihab-Eldin is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School, where he has also taught as an adjunct lecturer. He has worked with several outlets, including PBS, The New York Times and Al Jazeera English, and has more than 2 million followers online.