A Kuwaiti opposition figure said he has been summoned for questioning after allegedly criticising the emir on television, as the Gulf state widened a crackdown on dissent.
“I will go to the public prosecution (on Wednesday) for interrogation on the accusation of undermining the status of the emir in a televised interview in August,” former Islamist MP Faisal al-Muslim said on Twitter.
Muslim is the sixth former opposition MP to have been summoned for interrogation on accusations of making public remarks critical of Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah.
The prosecution has also extended the detention of a former nationalist MP Mussallam al-Barrak for a day following his arrest on Monday and interrogation until late Tuesday, his lawyers said.
Barrak was accused of undermining the emir’s status at a rally on October 15 when he warned against amending the disputed electoral law and also cautioned Kuwait was becoming autocratic.
