Kuwait police clash with hundreds of protesters (Reuters)

Saturday, February 19, 2011 11:01 AM By dwi

KUWAIT (Reuters) – Kuwaiti personnel fired gas at hundreds of unsettled Arabs demanding citizenship in a ordinal period of protests in a community right the OPEC member's top on Saturday, a human rights activist said.

Around 300 unsettled protesters clashed with police, who fired gas in the As-Salbiya community right Koweit City, injuring around heptad grouping according to witnesses.

It was the ordinal oppose in the oil-producing Gulf Semite land since a gesture of unrest inspired by turmoil in Tunisia and empire began sweeping across the Middle East in January.

Maha al-Barjas, vice chair of the Koweit Human Rights Society, said heptad grouping had been injured in the clashes.

On Friday, more than 1,000 unsettled had demonstrated in Jahra, north of Koweit City, demanding citizenship Barjas said between 100 to 140 grouping were inactive in that clash, but most were liberated on Saturday.

The unsettled Arabs, longtime residents of Koweit famous as bedoun from the Semite "bedoun jinsiyya" (without nationality), were demanding citizenship, liberated education, liberated aid and jobs, benefits acquirable to Kuwaiti nationals.

Many of Kuwait's unsettled are descendants of desert nomads denied citizenship under demanding nationality laws in the small Gulf state, whose citizens are entitled to big goodness benefits.

(Reporting by Koweit newsroom; Writing by Martina Fuchs; Editing by Alison Williams)


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