{"id":46763,"date":"2011-11-17T03:08:07","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T01:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=46763"},"modified":"2014-01-06T17:53:32","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T15:53:32","slug":"thousands-of-kuwaitis-storm-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/11\/17\/thousands-of-kuwaitis-storm-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of Kuwaitis storm parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"

Protesters storm building after police beat demonstrators calling for assembly’s dissolution amid claims of corruption.<\/strong><\/p>\n

”]\"\"Thousands of Kuwaitis have stormed parliamentary buildings after police and elite forces beat protesters.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The protesters marched earlier on Wednesday to Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Mohammad al-Ahmad Al-Sabah’s home to demand his resignation, an opposition MP said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Now, we have entered the house of the people,”<\/strong> said Mussallam al-Barrak, who led the protest along with several other\u00a0politicians and youth activists also calling for the dissolution of parliament over alleged corruption.<\/p>\n

The demonstrators broke open the parliament’s gates and entered the main chamber, where they sang the national anthem and left after a few minutes.<\/p>\n

The police had used batons to prevent protesters from marching to the residence of the prime minister, a senior member of the ruling family, after staging a rally outside parliament.<\/p>\n

Witnesses said at least five demonstrators were injured and treated on the site.<\/p>\n

Some activists said they will continue to camp outside parliament until the\u00a0prime minister\u00a0is sacked.<\/p>\n

Doctor\u00a0Fahad al-khanna, a former member of parliament, told Al Jazeera: “We have already been out in the streets protesting peacefully, we will not abandon our country to a bunch of\u00a0corrupt thieves,\u00a0we are urgently calling for an early\u00a0parliamentary election in the country.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Calls to resign<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tension has been building in Kuwait over the past three months after it was\u00a0alleged that about 16 MPs in the 50-member parliament received about $350m in bribes.<\/p>\n

The opposition has been leading a campaign to oust the premier, whom they accuse of failing to run the wealthy nation and fight corruption, which has become widespread.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Wednesday, about 20 opposition\u00a0opposition boycotted a parliamentary session, a day after the government and its supporters succeeded in rejecting a bid by the opposition to quiz the premier over allegations of corruption.<\/p>\n

After the rejection, three opposition MPs filed a fresh request
\nto question\u00a0the prime minister\u00a0over allegations of\u00a0fraud involving MPs and illegal overseas money transfers.<\/p>\n

The premier, 71, has been a target of opposition criticism since he was appointed to the job in February 2006, forcing him to resign six times.<\/p>\n

Parliament has also been dissolved three times in the same period.<\/p>\n

www.aljazeera.com, 16.11.2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Protesters storm building after police beat demonstrators calling for assembly’s dissolution amid claims of corruption. Thousands of Kuwaitis have stormed parliamentary buildings after police and elite forces beat protesters.\u00a0 The protesters marched earlier on Wednesday to Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Mohammad al-Ahmad Al-Sabah’s home to demand his resignation, an opposition MP said. “Now, we have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":46764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[428],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kuwait"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}