http://news.linktv.org Link TV News Videos (Filtered by topics: Abu Qatada) en-us Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:00:00 -0800 Copyright 2011 Link Media, Inc. http://news.linktv.org/videos/mosaic-news-011712?start=34 In Kuwait, the agency in charge of illegal residents, who are locally known as bidoons or stateless, issued a decision to take "deterrent measures" against stateless protestors who participated in demonstrations in the past several weeks, Al Jazeera reports. Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:00:00 -0800 http://news.linktv.org/videos/mosaic-news-011712 Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, 2011 Kuwait protests, Yemen Uprising, Syrian Civil War, Middle East Peace Process, Hosni Mubarak, Cyber warfare, 2011-2012 Saudi Arabia protests, House of Saud Presenter, Male #1 In Kuwait, the agency in charge of illegal residents, who are locally known as bidoons or stateless, issued a decision to take "deterrent measures" against those it described as law-violators, in reference to stateless protestors who participated in demonstrations in the past several weeks. The number of the so-called bidoons in Kuwait is estimated at 100,000. Reporter, Male #2 "The deportation of stateless protestors" is one of the headlines in Kuwaiti newspapers today: the outcome of a meeting convened by the Central Agency for Illegal Residents in Kuwait. Illegal residents in Kuwait are known as bidoons, and their number is estimated at over 100,000. The meeting, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister, Defense Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Sheikh Ahmad al-Humud al-Sabah, concluded with a decision to take "deterrent" measures. These measures will be enforced against stateless law-violators who took part in protests in the past several weeks, and against those who plan on participating in future protests. These measures include: first, laying off military members of the defense and interior ministries if they were involved in the protests; second, evicting them from government housing; third, canceling their security IDs; fourth, canceling their naturalization cases; fifth, deporting all those involved in the protests, who are known to hold citizenship, back to their own countries; sixth, deporting those unregistered at the Central Agency who previously signed their notifications to leave the country but did not do so. This decision comes after days of protests by the bidoons, the latest of which were held on Friday and Saturday. Security forces detained dozens of protestors on charges of taking part in an unlawful assembly, assaulting security forces, wounding military members, damaging vehicles, and violating the Interior Ministry's orders that banned organizing protests. In light of this decision, many questions have been raised about the future of this thorny issue in Kuwait, which the bidoons say has been unresolved for nearly four decades. Perhaps the answer to this question can be answered by the authorities' statements. The most recent was issued by Prime Minister Jaber al-Mubarak during his meeting with Yemeni Nobel Peace Price laureate Tawakkul Karman, indicating that a roadmap was drawn to solve the issue of the bidoons and that eligible applicants who were included in the 1965 government census will be naturalized. Or, perhaps the answer will come on Friday, as the secretary-general of the Kuwaiti Bidoons Congregation, Musaed al-Shammari, announced that the bidoons will take to the streets every Friday until their demands are met. Presenter, Male #1 The European Court for Human Rights said extraditing Jordanian Omar Othman, also known as Abu Qatada, from Britain to Jordan would violate his rights to receive a fair trial. According to the court's ruling, there is real danger that evidence extracted from him under torture could be used against him. Abu Qatada is accused of being the right-hand man of al-Qaeda's late leader Osama bin Laden in Europe.