DUBAI: Bahrain has arrested a man for posting “insults” on social media of its soldiers participating in the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen, prosecutors said Monday.

The man was detained for seven days and is accused of “deliberately spreading rumors in a time of war... to harm the military operations of our armed forces,” the prosecutor’s office said.

It did not reveal the identity of the man, who faces up to 10 years in jail if convicted, nor what he is accused of posting online.

In the UAE meanwhile, prosecutors in Abu Dhabi ordered the arrest of an Internet user who had posted an “incorrect” list of young Emiratis he claimed were among the 45 victims, local media reported Monday.

Emirati law provides for prison sentences and fines for those spreading rumors and false information, including about the armed forces, prosecutors said.

A deadly attack late last week on Gulf soldiers in Yemen may well have been designed to break the coalition’s will. If that was the aim, it backfired. Instead, the killing of troops has upended much of the ambiguity about the coalition’s boots-on-the-ground role in Yemen.