SOLONS JAILED OVER 2011 STORMING OF PARLIAMENT

Kuwait’s highest court on Sunday ordered an opposition leader and several lawmakers imprisoned for 3 ½ years over the 2011 storming of parliament during the country’s Arab Spring protests. The case before Kuwait’s Court of Cassation involved dozens of politicians, activists and others. The defendants were initially acquitted in the yearslong case, but a shock court decision in November resurrected the charges against them. Among those sentenced Sunday was Musallam al-Barrack, an opposition leader who left prison in April 2017 after serving a twoyear sentence on separate charges. Sitting and former lawmakers also were sentenced to prison. The case involved a total of 70 defendants. Al-Barrack had left Kuwait before the sentencing.