kuwait to restore citizenship of opposition figures
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Kuwait to restore citizenship of opposition figures

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Kuwaitis and MPs receive people at MPs Abdullah Al-Barghah residence in Diwaniya
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Kuwait will restore the citizenship of opposition figures and dozens of their relatives nearly three years after revoking it in a crackdown on dissent, lawmakers said Monday.
“Our thanks to the emir for his generous gesture of restoring the revoked citizenships,” hard-liner opposition MP Mohammad Al-Dallal tweeted after a meeting with Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah.
Several of the 14 MPs who attended the meeting confirmed that the Gulf state’s ruler had ordered the citizenships to be restored.
The Kuwaiti government in mid-2014 stripped at least four opposition figures and dozens of their family members of their nationality as part of a crackdown on dissent.
Those affected included radical former opposition MP Abdullah Al-Barghash and more than 50 members of his extended family.
They also included former spokesman of the opposition Popular Action Movement Saad Al-Ajmi, who was later deported to Saudi Arabia.
The owner of the opposition-linked Alam Al-Youm newspaper Ahmad Jabr Al-Shemmari and radical preacher Nabil Al-Awadhi also lost their nationality.
Several of those affected sued the government.
The move to restore their status comes after a November snap election in which opposition groups participated after a four-year boycott, winning almost half of the 50 seats.
Opposition groups and candidates made restoring citizenship rights a key election pledge.
Kuwait has a native population of 1.35 million, many of whom became citizens through naturalization. The emirate also has 3.1 million foreign residents.

Source: Arab News

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