Kuwait’s Emir issues amnesty to dissidents of 2011 uprising
The Hindu
Also pardoned were members of the alleged Abdali cell
Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmed al-Sabah has pardoned a group of prisoners in an amnesty intended to defuse a political row. Among those released included Shia Kuwaitis convicted in 2016 for spying for Iran and Lebanon’s Iran-allied Hezbollah.
The amnesty was a key demand of opposition lawmakers locked in a dispute with the government over the Prime Minister’s refusal to be questioned in Parliament. Earlier on Sunday, the Emir accepted the government’s resignation in another step to end the feud.
The Emir on Saturday issued two decrees granting pardons and reduced sentences of 35 people, including former lawmakers in self-exile in Turkey sentenced for storming the Parliament building in 2011 protests against corruption.