Woman 'beaten' for insulting Kuwaiti Emir

An Australia woman jailed for insulting Kuwait's Emir has claimed she was brutally beaten and starved during her six-month imprisonment.Nasrah Al Shamery, 44, was sentenced to two years in jail in April for comment she made during an argument with airport officials last year.Al Shamery - who was born in Kuwait - appealed the ruling and was released from prison and allowed to return to Australia last weekOnce there, she spoke about her ordeal, branding her imprisonment "the hardest six months of my life".Al Shamery said: "They put me in a small room with no bed and no blanket. They locked me up and put a label on my door that said I belong to Israel."After the airport argument me and my two oldest sons were detained and beaten by officials. They told me to denounce my Australian passport."An officer said 'Just throw the passport on the ground and step on it with your foot and keep repeating I am an Iraqi person, I am an Iraqi person.'"He would wait a little bit and then he would hit me on my head. He repeated this three times and I refused to do it. Then he would say to his offsider 'Take this b***h to the cells' ".Al Shamery denied insulting the emir, insisting it never occurred to her to bring him into the argument.She added to ABC radio: "It never occurred to me to swear at anyone. I was really surprised at the filthy language they used against me. And he hit me with his fist. I swear by God, I swear by God it never occurred to me to swear against the emir."

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SamiraJun 26th, 2009 - 07:18:36

Hundreds of thousands of people pass through Kuwait airport annually with no incidences like this one.

It is hard to believe that neither Shammary or anyone from her entourage said something to provoke officials or others. Airport employees don't just attack travelers. Somewhere along the line, the truth has been twisted and the media is milking this story for all it is worth without digging for more information other than Shammary's version.

With regards to the comment about nuking Kuwait and the derogatory allusion to Muslims, let us not forget the unjustified degradation of travelers to the USA post 9/11 by Homeland Security officials who expose far worse racism and hatred to others than what Shammary saw in Kuwait.

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