KUWAIT CITY // Kuwait’s lower court acquitted 70 opposition activists today, including nine former MPs, of charges of storming the parliament building two years ago.
“All the defendants were found not guilty” of charges of storming a public building, assaulting police, resisting orders and damaging public property, in the ruling by judge Hisham Abdullah.
Hundreds of opposition activists entered the building in Kuwait City after a noisy November 16, 2011 protest to demand the removal of then-prime minister Sheikh Nasser Mohammed Al Ahmed Al Sabah, over corruption allegations.
Sheikh Nasser resigned two weeks later and a new government was formed, after which the emir, Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah, dissolved parliament and called fresh polls.
* Agence France-Presse
