Australian woman says beaten in Kuwait jail

0 Comments | AFP, June, 2009

SYDNEY (AFP) — An Australian woman who spent six months in a Kuwaiti jail for insulting the emir said she was beaten and kept in a small cell for days without food, according to a television report.

Nasrah Al Shamery, 44, was given a two-year jail sentence in April for comments made during an argument with airport officials.

She was freed from prison and allowed to return to Australia this month after appealing and receiving a suspended sentence.

Al Shamery, an Australian citizen who was born in Kuwait, told public broadcaster ABC late Tuesday that her imprisonment was the hardest six months of her life.

"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)," Al Shamery...