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KuwaitÂ’s opposition expels members over Hezbollah row | |
2008-02-22 | |
KUWAIT CITY - Kuwait’s opposition Popular Action Bloc expelled two of its members for attending a rally in memory of Imad Muganiyeh, a top commander of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah who was killed last week in Syria, a local newspaper said on Thursday. The two Shiite members of parliament - Adnan Abdel-Samad and Ahmed Lari - were expelled for taking part in the “rally to mourn the terrorist Imad Muganiyeh who brutally killed Kuwaitis” during a 1988 plane hijacking, the party said in a statement carried by the Kuwait Times daily.
At the February 16 rally, both MPs said there was no evidence of Muganiyeh’s involvement in the hijacking. The Kuwaiti government condemned the rally Monday and said it would take legal action to “safeguard national unity.” Two days later, four Kuwaiti lawyers filed a suit against the MPs and other Shiite figures who took part in the rally. There have been calls by other Kuwaiti lawmakers for the lifting of Abdel-Samad’s and Lari’s parliamentary immunity, thus allowing the two to be prosecuted. | |
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