Kuwait : Security crackdown on Bedoon community renews tensions

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Turkish air force fighter jets perform a fly over on February 25, 2014 during celebrations to mark Kuwait’s 53rd National Day and the 23rd Liberation Day.(Photo: AFP-Yasser al-Zayyat) Turkish air force fighter jets perform a fly over on February 25, 2014 during celebrations to mark Kuwait’s 53rd National Day and the 23rd Liberation Day.(Photo: AFP-Yasser al-Zayyat)

More than three years after the Bedoon (stateless Arabs) community in Kuwait launched demonstrations to highlight their decades-long plight, tensions have resurfaced in the tiny oil-rich country as security forces conducted crackdowns and arrests over the past month against activists and protesters.

Yazan al-Saadi (...)

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