In late May 2025, blogger Mesaed Al-Musaileem, who is a Kuwaiti national, was forcibly returned to Kuwait, where he faces a combined total of 30 years in prison for his human rights activism online, and taken into custody. He was deported from Malaysia, where he sought asylum. Al-Musaileem, a well-known blogger in Kuwait, was previously denied the right to refugee status in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he moved in 2017, despite the ample evidence of threats of persecution against him by the Kuwaiti government solely for his peaceful activities on the Internet. Al-Mesaileem began his union work in 2004 when he and his colleagues established a union for workers in the Ministry of Endowments, which he left in 2008 to start participating in the public protests and demonstrations that took place in the following years, until he left Kuwait legally in June 2015. In 2017, he decided to live in Sarajevo, where he worked legally.