Kuwait

Riot police in the city of Jahra used tear gas to disperse hundreds of protestors on January 14, according to witnesses cited by the Associated Foreign Press . The demonstrators were members of the country's stateless 'Bidoon' population, a group of over 100,000 residents who claim to be of Kuwaiti origin, but have been denied citizenship by the state. The government claims the Bidoons destroyed their foreign passports in order to take advantage of the country's generous welfare provisions. The protest was the second in two days in the city, and dozens of arrests have been made.

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