AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Prosecutors in Kuwait have detained 18 people allegedly for financing Lebanon’s powerful Shi’ite Muslim group Hezbollah, the newspapers Al-Qabas and Al-Rai reported on Thursday.
Al Qabas said the prosecution ordered the detainees to be held at the central prison for 21 days while investigations continue into alleged “membership in a prohibited party, money laundering and spying.”
The Interior Ministry did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. Persian Gulf Arab regimes in 2016 designated Hezbollah a terrorist organization.
Kuwait claimed that in 2016 a group of Shi’ite Kuwaitis for spying for Iran and Hezbollah, accusing Tehran at the time of seeking to destabilize it. Iran had denied any connection.
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21 November 2021 - 07:37
News ID: 1200642
Prosecutors in Kuwait have detained 18 people allegedly for financing Lebanon’s powerful Shi’ite Muslim group Hezbollah, the newspapers Al-Qabas and Al-Rai reported on Thursday.
