Fourteen Kuwaiti citizens convicted of forming a cell with ties to Tehran have fled by sea to Iran, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported Monday (July 17th).
Citing high-ranking security sources, Al-Seyassah daily said the 14 men fled to Iran on speedboats hours after Kuwait's supreme court sentenced them to lengthy jail terms for plotting attacks in Kuwait, AFP reported.
The supreme court last month overturned an acquittal by the appeals court and sentenced 21 defendants to jail, including one for life, for forming a cell with ties to both Iran and Lebanon's Hizbullah and for planning attacks in Kuwait.
The defendants who fled were not in custody prior to last month's sentencing because they were freed after their acquittal by the appeals court last year.
