MP Safa al-Hashem receives death threat over anti expat statement

Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Kuwait’s only female MP Safaa al-Hashem, who is known for her anti-expat stance, received a death threat, via e-mail over her recent remarks on expats. Recently the MP called the government to impose charges on expatriates for everything they do, including taxing the air they breathe in the country.

Al-Hashem told local media that she had submitted a report to cyber cell of Ministry of Interior to identify the culprit. According to her, this was second time she is receiving death threat over anti-expats remarks. The first was several months ago when she made similar statements to tax some 3.3 million expatriates in the country.

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