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Preachers fined for 'promoting sectarian strife'

March 17, 2019 | 11:13 p.m EDT

KUWAIT: The court of cassation yesterday fined two preachers KD 20,000 each over charges of promoting sectarian strife through their sermons. In its verdict issued against clergymen Hussein Al-Maatouq and Othman Al-Khamees, the court stressed that provoking sectarian conflicts and/or showing contempt towards any social sect is against the law and subject to legal penalties. In other news, lawyer Yousif Al-Muhaish, who ran as a candidate in the third electoral constituency in the parliamentary by-election, filed yesterday a contest questioning the election's results.

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