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Place of Birth: Kuwait
About Mohammed Al-Sanousi
- Mohammed Sanousi or Mohammed Nasser Al-Sanousi (Arabic: ???? ???? ?????????, born c.
- 1938) is a Kuwaiti director, producer, media personality and politician who served for eight months as Kuwait's Minister of Information, taking the post in April 2006 and resigning on 17 December.
- In April 2012, Al-Sanousi was given the "Arab award for media creativity" of the 9th Arab Media Forum, hosted in Kuwait.Al-Sanousi assumed the post following the resignation of Anas Al-Reshaid.
- Al-Sanousi became a controversial figure during the 2006 parliamentary election, during which he ordered several satellite television channels supporting opposition parties to be taken off the air.
- MP Mohammed Al-Sager pledged that the opposition bloc would not allow Al-Sanousi to be reappointed due to restrictions he had allegedly placed on press freedoms.
- Islamist MP Faisal Al-Muslim stated that Al-Sanousi's actions had been "against the principles of freedom, and against the constitution that guarantees freedom of speech, expression and publication".
- Al-Sanousi resigned on 17 December 2006, one day before he was due to be grilled by parliament.
- Opposition MP Musallam Al-Barrak suggested Al-Sanousi had been forced to quit, calling it "a victory for the constitution, democracy and freedom".
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