Dozens of Kuwaiti protesters stormed parliament late on Wednesdaye.

本周三晚些时候，几十个科威特示威者席卷了议会。

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The crowd occupied parliament's main chamber before leaving
Eyewitnesses³ said they were demanding that Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser al-Mohammad al-Sabah step down.

Hundreds of people, including opposition⁴ lawmakers, have been protesting weekly outside parliament over alleged⁵ corruption⁶.

Some reports said riot police had beaten demonstrators using batons⁷（指挥棒，警棍） as they gathered outside parliament.

AFP news agency reports that at least five protesters were injured.

"Now, we have entered the house of the people," said Mussallam al-Barrak, who was among those who led the protest against Sheikh Nasser, a nephew of the emir（酋长，王侯） .

Corruption claims

The demonstrators broke open the gates to the parliament building and managed to enter the main chamber, where they sang the national anthem⁸ and then left a short time later.

One eyewitness² and protester told the BBC that guardsmen did not intervene（干涉，调停） when they entered the parliament building, stormed after protesters' attempt to march on the prime minister's house were blocked.

"Some people managed to get inside. No confrontation⁹ happened with the national guard who are guarding the building," junior doctor Mohammed told the BBC World Service.

"People are asking for more reforms, and especially as recently the government has not been going with the spirit of the constitution, which some regard as the absolute minimum of democracy."

As the crowd returned to the square outside, the protesters outside shouted: "The people want to bring down the head (of government)," Reuters reports.

Kuwait's parliament is one of the few elected bodies in the Gulf¹⁰.

Kuwait has not seen the mass protests that toppled former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Tunisia's Zine al-Abedine Ben Ali, thanks to a generous welfare system, observers say.

But opposition groups have escalated¹¹ pressure on Kuwait's leadership in recent months over claims of corruption and perceived attempts to roll back political freedoms.