Kuwait sentences cleric and two others to death over alleged Iran-linked plot targeting interior minister; eight co-defendants get five years

Kuwait’s State Security Circuit issued death sentences today against Shia cleric Sheikh Hussein Abdullah al-Matouq and two others on charges of espionage and plotting to assassinate First Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Fahad al-Yousef al-Sabah. The post describes the case as an Iran-linked plot.