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28-Nov-2017

Kuwait court sentences MPs to jail terms for storming into parliament

A Kuwaiti court handed several lawmakers jail terms on Monday for forcing their way into the parliament building in 2011. Protesters burst into parliament in 2011 after lawmakers had been denied the right to question then prime minister Sheikh Nasser al-Mohammad al-Sabah about corruption allegations. Kuwait’s al-Qabas newspaper said the court sentenced current MPs Jamaan al-Harbash and Waleed al-Tabtabai to five years and MP Mohammed al-Mutair to one year. An outspoken former parliament deputy, Musallam al-Barrak, who earlier this year finished serving a two-year prison sentence for insulting the country’s ruler, was sentenced to seven years. 

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