Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, an award-winning Kuwaiti American journalist whose past work includes reporting for HuffPost, has reportedly been jailed in Kuwait over social media posts related to the Iran war.

The 41-year-old was arrested on March 3 in Kuwait City and faces prosecution in a special tribunal, the independent news outlet Drop Site reported Tuesday.

His charges include spreading false information, harming national security and misusing his mobile phone, according to The Guardian.

It’s unclear which social media post reportedly led to his arrest, though he had shared CNN footage on March 2 of a U.S. Air Force fighter plane crashing west of Kuwait City on his Substack page.

Shihab-Eldin wrote that the pilot and weapons officer on the plane successfully ejected and survived, and that local residents came to the assistance of one of the crew members. He hasn’t posted on his page since.

The Committee to Protect Journalists called for his unconditional release on Tuesday, while noting that his reported detention while visiting family comes amid authorities in Gulf countries, including Kuwait, imposing tight media censorship amid the ongoing war.

Kuwait’s Ministry of Interior on March 2 had warned against filming or publishing videos or information related to Iranian attacks and had referred people accused of violating its media law to prosecution, according to the Kuwait Times.

“Journalism is not a crime, and Shihab-Eldin’s case reflects a broader pattern of using national security laws to stifle scrutiny and control the narrative,” said CPJ regional director Sara Qudah in a statement.

Representatives with the Kuwaiti Embassy in Washington, D.C., and the U.S. State Department did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s requests for comment.

Shihab-Eldin’s arrest follows another reporter speaking out about his own detention in Kuwait last month on suspicion of espionage after photographing U.S. warships off the Gulf Coast.

Yitzchak Horowitz, a journalist for the weekly Haredi (Ultra-Orthodox) newspaper BeKehila, reported that he was questioned for several hours before being released.

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