BBC: A prominent Kuwaiti opposition leader has been jailed for five years for insulting the emir.
Mussallam al-Barrak, a former MP, had first been detained in October on suspicion of "undermining the status of the emir".
He had warned the Emir, Sheikh Sabah al-Sabah, in a speech that he would not be allowed to "take Kuwait into the abyss of autocracy".
Several former MPs and tweeters have been jailed for insulting the emir.
Kuwait has not witnessed the same scale of pro-democracy uprisings as in other Arab states, but there has been growing tension between former members of parliament and the government, which is dominated by the al-Sabah family. » | Monday, April 15, 2015
