Kuwait decided Sunday to deport nine Egyptians after taking part in a rally to support the Egyptian ousted president Mohamed Morsi in front of the Egyptian and American embassies in the Kuwaiti capital. Local media said more deportations are expected as investigations continue, but so far 35 people were proved guilty in breaking a law banning any political gathering in Kuwait especially for expatriates. Al-Siyasa newspaper noted that the families of those deported will leave Kuwait next week. Al-Rai newspaper said the criminal investigation department is expected to summon more people suspected in participating in those gatherings. Kuwait is among several wealthy Persian Gulf countries that supported the military move last month to oust President Mosri, after having a rocky relations with Egypt during the one-year-long Muslim Brotherhood rule that ended on July 3. After the Egyptian army toppled Morsi, Kuwait pledged to send $4 billion urgent aid to Cairo. Kuwaiti Interior Minister Shiekh Mohamed al-Khaled said his country will not tolerate any attempt to destabilize the stamp-size sheikdom. According to some estimates, 400,000 Egyptians live in Kuwait making them the largest Arab expatriates community in the country that has a population of 3.9 million, two-third of them non-Kuwaitis working the rich-oil country. Anti-Islamists lawmakers put the move in the context of a preemptive strike against “sleeping cells” of Muslim brotherhood in Kuwait.
Posted on: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 03:12:49 +0000