2 get 40 mths jail in State Security case

Ruling reinstates female engineer

By Jaber Al-Hamoud

KUWAIT CITY, Dec 21: The Administrative Court of Appeals chaired by Judge Dr Nayef Khalid Al-Mutairi upheld verdict of the Administrative Court of First Instance that nullified Kuwait Municipality Director General’s decision to sack a Kuwaiti lady civil engineer, obliging the defendant to pay KD 1,001 compensation to the plaintiff.

On behalf of the plaintiff, Attorney Freih Kouh sued the defendant on his decision to end the services of his client after she was demoted to level four for missing from work for 15 days after eight years of meritorious service as a civil engineer. The attorney argued that the decision contravened civil service law, because the Director of Personnel Affairs had written to Director of Finance to approve payment of the plaintiff’s salary.

The decision of her termination was taken 40 days after she resumed work, indicating the decision was inconsequential and could no longer hold. He regarded the action as abuse of official power, noting his client only returned to work after completing her studies in France. She had cut her study leave short due to an unspecified social condition.

Duo jailed:

The Court of Cassation upheld the verdict of the Court of Appeals and sentenced two men to 40 months imprisonment in the State Security case, reports Al-Seyassah daily.

The Public Prosecution had charged the men with joining a banned group the Al-Tahrir Party whose ideology was to disobey the higher authorities, destroy the basic system of the country, promote banned group through the publication of pamphlets and create chaos.

The men were also accused of publicly provoking the ruling authority via the YouTube and promoting their ideology with the purpose of destroying the basic systems in the country – one of them using his Diwaniya and mosques to promote his ideology.