Kuwait high court sentences former MPs to prison – Middle East Monitor

Kuwait’s Court of Cassation, the country’s highest judicial body in the country, has issued a four-year prison sentence against former MP Walid Al-Tabtabaei, over challenging the Emir’s powers, Kuwaiti media reported.

According to media reports, the court found Al-Tabtabaei guilty of insulting the Emir, Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, in social media posts, over his decision last year to suspend certain articles of the constitution, dissolve the National…