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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 said.
Following the airport argument Al Shamery said she and her two oldest sons were detained for hours and beaten by officials, who told her to denounce her 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,'" said Al Shamery.
"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 bitch to the cells'," she added.
Al Shamery denied insulting the emir, and said she had not said a word about him.
"It never occurred to me to swear at anyone," she said.
"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."
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 said.
Following the airport argument Al Shamery said she and her two oldest sons were detained for hours and beaten by officials, who told her to denounce her 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,'" said Al Shamery.
"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 bitch to the cells'," she added.
Al Shamery denied insulting the emir, and said she had not said a word about him.
"It never occurred to me to swear at anyone," she said.
"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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