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Al Barrak gets two years for insulting Kuwait emir | GulfNews.com
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Kuwait’s Court of Appeals on Sunday sentenced former lawmaker Musallam Al Barrak to two years in jail for insulting the country’s emir.
“I have great trust in God,” Al Barrak, a former union leader, said immediately after the sentencing. “This is the fate we have chosen and I will turn myself in once they show me the necessary papers,” he reportedly said as he was sitting in his own majlis.
Al Barrak’s lawyer said he would challenge the ruling on Monday at the court of cassation.
The trial of Kuwait’s top dissident had galvanised the country’s attention.

Kuwait opposition leader sentenced to one week | GulfNews.com
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A Kuwaiti court on Monday sentenced former lawmaker Musallam Al Barrak to one week in jail in the case filed against him by TV broadcaster Al Shahed.
According to the defendant’s lawyer, Thamer Al Jidai, the court also slapped Al Barrak with a fine of KD75.
However, the judge said that the ex-MP could pay KD50 to suspend the execution of the jail sentence.
Al Shahed took Al Barrak to court for allegedly telling a crowd at a rally held in October 2012 that if the TV broadcaster had placed a microphone in front of him as he delivered his speech, he would throw it away.

Kuwait travel ban on Musallam Al Barrak lifted | GulfNews.com
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Manama: Kuwait’s court of appeals on Monday dismissed a request by former lawmaker Musallam Al Barrak to suspend his trial until a verdict by the cassation court is pronounced.
However, the court agreed to lift a travel ban imposed on the leading opposition figure put on trial on charges of undermining the status of the emir in a speech he delivered in October.
A five-year-sentence against Al Barrak by a lower court in April was overturned by the court of appeals in May. However, the court kept the case open within the court, a decision that the former lawmaker challenged at the court of cassation, saying that it needed to be sent back to the lower court.
“Not taking back my case to the lower court means that I have been deprived of my litigation rights,” he said.
The court of appeals scheduled the next trial on September 8.