Kuwait: MPs get suspended sentences

The Supreme Court has given three former MPs 20-month suspended jail terms for publicly insulting Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, overturning a 2013 decision by the appeals court to acquit them. Falah Al-Sawwagh, Khaled Al-Tahous and Bader Al-Dahoum were arrested in October 2012 after a public rally at which they warned against a planned election law. The lower court sentenced them to three years in jail the following February (GSN 940/5), but the verdict was overturned by the appeals court a few months later. The Supreme Court’s 8 June ruling is final, however. According to AFP, the men were ordered to pay bail of KD2,000 ($7,000).