ABU DHABI: The United Arab Emirates said on Sunday it would try a Kuwaiti Islamist ex-MP in absentia for allegedly “inciting sedition” in remarks he made about Abu Dhabi’s powerful crown prince.
Mubarak al-Duwailah has been referred to the Federal Supreme Court, the UAE’s top court, for “allegedly abusing religion to incite sedition, harm national unity, [and] disturb social peace,” WAM news agency reported Attorney General Salim Saeed Kubaish as saying.
The former lawmaker was also charged with “intentionally” spreading “false news ... rumors ... provocative and malicious propaganda,” Kubaish said.
Duwailah is a leading figure in the Islamic Constitutional Movement, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood in Kuwait.
The UAE on Nov. 15 published a list of 83 “terrorist” groups, topped by the Muslim Brotherhood. The list was criticized by many Sunni Islamists for not including Lebanon’s powerful Shiite Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group.
In a December television interview on the Kuwaiti parliament’s Al-Majlis television channel, Duwailah “falsely alleged” that the UAE was against Sunni Islam, said the statement on WAM.
AFP
