A court in Kuwait has sentenced two men to death after finding them guilty of spying for Iran and plotting attacks in the emirate.
One of the men was a Kuwaiti and the other an Iranian convicted in absentia.
They were convicted alongside 20 other Kuwaitis, who were sentenced to between five and 25 years in prison.
The sentencing comes amid heightened tensions between Sunni-ruled Gulf states and Iran over Saudi Arabia’s execution of a prominent Shia cleric. Kuwait recalled its ambassador from Iran last week in protest at the storming of the Saudi embassy in Tehran by a crowd angered by the killing of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr.