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Kuwait Charges 7 Shiites for Eulogizing Mughniyeh | Kuwait Charges 7 Shiites for Eulogizing Mughniyeh |
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Seven Kuwaitis will be put on trial for allegedly sending a statement to Lebanese and Iranian television stations eulogizing slain Hizbullah commander Imad Mughniyeh, their lawyer has said.
Prosecutors charged the men, who are all Shiites, with "spreading false news about the situation in the country" for sending the statement that "weakened the position of the state abroad," said defense attorney Abdul-Karim bin Haidar on Tuesday. He said his clients deny any connection to the statement that eulogized Mughniyeh who was killed in a Damascus car bombing Feb. 12. The statement was broadcast by Hizbullah's Al-Manar TV station in Lebanon and Iran's state-run Arabic satellite channel Al-Alam. Shortly after Mughniyeh's assassination, hundreds of Shiites gathered in a Kuwait City suburb to mourn him as a martyr and a hero. The ceremony provoked an uproar in the predominantly Sunni country that blames Mughniyeh for hijacking a Kuwait Airways flight in 1988 and murdering two of its passengers. A Kuwaiti criminal court will begin hearing the case against the men, who include four former legislators and one cleric, on April 30, bin Haidar said. If convicted, they could face a minimum of three years in jail, he said.(AP-Naharnet) |
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