Candidate gets death threats

Arab Times, Monday, May 29, 2006
Mansour Al-Sultan - Special to the Arab Times

Agencies add: A female candidate contesting the June 29 parliamentary elections withdrew from the fray after she allegedly received murder threats from unidentified sources, says Al-Seyassah. Speaking to the daily, the woman called these persons ‘egoists’. They accused her of betraying and put pressure on her family to ‘abandon’ her if she insisted to join politics in addition to threatening to murder her. The woman said she is ready to disclose the names of those who threatened her if she feels safe and the police promise to protect her.
She added a woman contesting the National Assembly seat neither brings shame to the family not is it a scandal. Moreover it is a question of pride for the family and the state. The woman has apologized to the residents in her constituency for withdrawing from the elections saying she had no other alternative. She also appealed to HH the Amir to protect Kuwaiti women against such oppression and person who want to deprive them of their political rights.