KUWAIT: Kuwait briefly detained a prominent Sunni Muslim cleric less than two weeks after the United States included him on a sanctions list on suspicion he was funneling money to militants in Iraq and Syria, his lawyer said yesterday.
Shafi Al Ajmi, who was detained on Sunday on the border with Saudi Arabia while returning home from a pilgrimage, was released after four hours of questioning, his lawyer said. “He was released without any charges,” the lawyer, Mohammed Al Jumia, told Reuters. “He is now at home.”
Jumia said he planned to file a lawsuit against the US Treasury to lift his client’s name from its blacklist, but gave no further details. An Interior Ministry spokesman could not immediately be reached for comment.
REUTERS
