Man on ‘death row’ for drug peddling arrested
Not guilty of vandalism
KUWAIT CITY, Oct 8: The Misdemeanor Court acquitted a man who was accused of deliberately damaging the wall of a company using a crane.
The company accused the suspect of intentionally damaging the reinforced concrete wall using a crane which resulted in material damages estimated at KD 9,000.
The company’s workers and security guards at the site were witness to the incident, as per the company.
The defense counsel Lawyer Nawaf Al-Mohannadi highlighted the lack of incriminating evidences, indicating that the company has a number of civil cases in the courts with the suspect and they were using this case to suppress his client. He added that the accusation against his client is false, because the incident report revealed only six blocks of the wall were shaken and that there was never any damage worth mentioning.
Wanted man held: Acting on a tip-off and armed with a search and arrest warrant issued by the Public Prosecution, the Mubarak Al-Kabir police raided a location in Kabd and arrested an unidentified person who had been sentenced in absentia to capital punishment for trafficking in drugs and attempting to kill two securitymen by shooting at them, reports Al-Rai daily.
A security source said the suspect who was armed, initially managed to flee but was chased and arrested.
The suspect has been handed over to the Sentences Enforcement Department.
Lawyer gets jail: The Criminal Court has sentenced Lawyer Hani Hussein to five-year imprisonment with hard labor due to a State Security case filed against him for posting and spreading false news through his Twitter account about a Bangladeshi man masquerading as a Kuwaiti doctor after receiving Kuwaiti citizenship fraudulently.
According to the case file, Lawyer Hussein claimed in his Twitter posts that the Bangladeshi man’s sponsor used to work at Ministry of Health until he travelled to Sweden and stayed there for a very long time before he died. The man took advantage of the long absence and death of his sponsor and stole the latter’s identity. However, Ministry of Interior denied such a claim made by Lawyer Hussein.
Even though Lawyer Hussein initially denied all charges leveled against him, the prosecution conducted investigations in total secrecy for the benefit of the public.
A case was then filed against the lawyer in order to protect the reputation and integrity of doctors and other medical professionals in this country.
In another case involving Lawyer Hani Hussein, the Criminal Court acquitted him of the charges of instigating sectarian sedition.
In the previous session, the Criminal Court presided over by Judge Ahmad Al-Yassin decided to release Lawyer Hani Hussein on bail worth KD 200, after he was arrested based on a complaint lodged by the Cybercrime Department against him in which he was accused of instigating sectarian sedition by posting controversial messages on his personal Twitter account.
Bouyabis detained: General Public Prosecutor Dherar Al-Asousi ordered the detention of Twitter user Hamed Bouyabis for 21 days in the Central Prison over a case filed against him for allegedly using words that are deemed offensive to the entity of His Highness the Amir.