Kuwait: Fugitive ex-MP returns


Issue 1093 - 28 Nov 2019 | 1 minute read

A second former MP sentenced for his role in the storming of the National Assembly (parliament) in an anti-corruption scandal in 2011 has returned to Kuwait to begin a three-and-a-half-year jail term. Waleed Al-Tabtabaei arrived back on 25 November and handed himself over to officials.

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