Kuwaiti 対立 人物/姿/数字 逮捕(する)d, sent to serve two-year 刑務所,拘置所 宣告,判決

KUWAIT, June 13 (Reuters) - Kuwaiti 安全 軍隊s have 拘留するd a 目だつ 対立 政治家,政治屋 who is 予定 to serve two years in 刑務所,拘置所 after 存在 罪人/有罪を宣告するd of 侮辱ing the 首長, his lawyer said on Saturday.

Musallam al-Barrak, a former member of 議会, has long been at 半端物s with the 当局 over changes made in 2012 to the 選挙 法律 which he and other 対立 政治家,政治屋s said were ーするつもりであるd to 妨げる them getting 力/強力にする.

Lawyer Mohammed Abdel Kader al-Jassim told Reuters that 同様に as Barrak himself, nine of his 親族s had been 拘留するd.

The former member of 議会 was placed in 独房監禁 confinement in a section of the central 刑務所,拘置所 usually used to 持つ/拘留する inmates 罪人/有罪を宣告するd of serious 麻薬s offences, and he began a hunger strike to 抗議する against the 条件s of his 監禁,拘置, the lawyer said.

His 親族s were 存在 held at the 犯罪の 調査s department, he said.

Kuwaiti newspaper al-Rai and alaan.cc news website said Barrak was had been 逮捕(する)d at a farm in Kabed, an area 南西 of Kuwait city.

The 事例/患者 goes 支援する to 2012 in the run-up to changes to the 選挙(人)の 法律 by the 首長, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, which the 対立 saw as favouring プロの/賛成の-政府 候補者s.

Barrak was 設立する 有罪の 設立する of 侮辱ing Sheikh Sabah and was 宣告,判決d to five years in 刑務所,拘置所. An 控訴,上告s 削減(する) that to two years.

That 宣告,判決 was 確認するd by the 法廷,裁判所 of cassation last month. Barrak, who said that 判決,裁定 had 奪うd him of a level of the litigation 過程.

Kuwait, a Western-連合した oil 輸出業者, 避けるd 大規模な 抗議するs during the 2011 "Arab Spring" when some 支配者s in the 地域 were overthrown, but 国民s held large street 抗議するs in 2012 over changes to the 選挙(人)の 法律.

The 政府 had said it would strike with an "アイロンをかける 握りこぶし" against dissent.

While Kuwait 許すs more freedom of speech than some other 湾 Arab 明言する/公表するs, the 首長 has the last say in 明言する/公表する 事件/事情/状勢s. (報告(する)/憶測ing by Ahmed Hagagy, 令状ing by Sami Aboudi; Editing by コマドリ Pomeroy)

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