The story: Kuwaiti state security forces are under fire over their detention of Jamal Al-Sayer, a renowned poet. The public prosecutor claims that Sayer violated the law by “insulting the emir and spreading fake news in a series of tweets.” The backlash has swept Twitter, with many prominent Kuwaiti MPs denouncing the detention as “kidnapping.”   

The coverage: Sayer often tweets his political commentary, but he recently began tweeting under the hashtag “#we will not permit the destruction of our homeland and the shredding of our constitution” in Arabic to describe...