Kuwaiti researcher ties himself to a pole to makes a point

Dr. Omran Hassan Muhammad, a researcher at the Kuwaiti Institute for Scientific Research on Wednesday tied himself to steel bars in front of the Kuwaiti Journalists Union and chanted slogans denouncing the U.S. and Israeli policy, saying they violate the rights of Arabs and Muslims.

The Kuwaiti daily as-Seyassah which issued the news on Wednesday said that Dr. Omran chose the Kuwaiti Journalists Union to express his views in this way and as a means of pressuring the Union to accept his application for membership, which has been refused for eight months.

The paper added that Omran stopped his shouting only when the director of Kuwait City police and security forces came in to unfasten him and after he summoned on to the site through calls with his cellular the representatives of television, the press and world news agencies working in Kuwait.