Kuwaiti police accused of abuse

Rights group Refugees International (RI) has accused Kuwaiti security officials of abusing prisoners.

Protests in December and January by ‘Stateless Arabs’ – Bedouins who live in Kuwait but have never been granted citizenship – resulted in police using rubber bullets and water cannons to break up demonstrations. 

And RI spokesman Sarnata Reynolds claims those arrested have been mistreated in prison.

She said: “It’s 100,000 people who have lived there for generations in a country which has a US$47 billion surplus.”
Reynolds described jail conditions as an “abhorrent, ugly stain on the country”.

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