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Correspondent Adel Eidan for Al-Arabiya satellite television network complained to a parliamentary panel Sunday that he was beaten by Kuwaiti security officers during a brief detention last month.
In a statement to the house's Human Rights Committee, Eidan provided the names of two officers whom he said beat him all over his body with a stick and called him names when he refused to provide the names of his sources.
"When I declined to disclose the names out of respect for my profession and morals, he referred me to other persons who supervised torturing me," he said.
The correspondent was detained for four days last month on charges of spreading false news that harmed national interests after he had reported a shootout between militants and police.
Eidan said he did not expect such mistreatment in a democratic country like Kuwait, and that he was still being harassed by security officers who did not want him to speak out.
