Research freedom?

In today's Kuwait Times...

Controversial research paper
KUWAIT: Officials from the Ahmadi security directorate summoned two students who wrote a controversial research paper stating that Kuwait was a part of Iraq. The two students were asked to make a research paper about Kuwait and the students wrote a paper about how Kuwait was part of Iraq. Upon reading the paper, the teacher handed it to the Ministry of Education who in turn handed it to the Ahmadi security directorate. The students told security officials that they had paid a man to write the paper for them and that they had no idea what was stated in the paper. The man who wrote the paper is now being summoned by security officials and the investigation is ongoing.

... where I come from the controversial bit would be the fact that students got someone else to write their research paper for them! Not so, in this part of the world... almost a fact of life I'm afraid, and its reflected in the Kuwaiti workplace.

So are security officials going to come after me if I were to research the pros and cons of Kuwait being a part of Iraq? This kind of reminds me of the (over)reaction of certain people to cartoons, or the recent naming of a teddybear...