Kuwait opposition leader sentenced to 5 years for criticizing regime

[JURIST] Kuwait opposition leader and former MP Mussallam Al Barrak [Gulf News profile] was sentenced on Tuesday to five years in prison for criticizing leader Emir Shaikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah [official website], which is a crime under Kuwait's constitution. Barrak was arrested [JURIST report] in October after a public speech was found to contain remarks detrimental to the "social and political balance of the country." The remarks came during a boycott movement led by Barrak against a controversial...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/04/kuwait-opposition-leader-sentenced-to-5-years-for-criticizing-regime.php

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