"A prominent Kuwaiti Shiite lawyer and
parliamentary candidate filed an appeal on Tuesday against a one-year jail
sentence he was given on charges of insulting Sunni Islam, he said. Khaled
Al-Shatti, who is running for parliament in elections on Saturday, said a court
had sentenced him on Monday over statements deemed insulting to Sunnis. Shatti's
comments in March last year allegedly criticised former Saudi religious leader
Abdul Aziz bin Baz and Sheikh Mohammad bin Abdul Wahhab, the founder of the
strict Wahhabi school of Sunni Islam." (thanks Basim)