MoH slams video alleging kids in hospitals sexually harassed
Kuwait in bid to get Iraq govt cancel verdict
KUWAIT CITY, April 21: Ministry of Health denied a video clip that went viral on social media alleging that children are sexually harassed in Kuwaiti hospitals, reports Annahar daily.
In a statement, the ministry noted content of the footage is baseless and contrary to the reality.
It affirmed that children are fully protected in Kuwaiti hospitals, and the Office for Protecting Child Rights and Department of Juvenile Protection are notified to take necessary legal action in the event of neglect or physical abuse.
The ministry reserves the legal right to sue the news site that posted the video and those who provided the false information, statement added.
‘Husband spies on wife’:
A Kuwaiti woman has filed a case against her husband accusing the man of planting two wiretapping devices in her car to spy on her, reports Al-Rai daily.
In her complaint the woman said, after a dispute with her husband, during which she was beaten and humiliated, she left the home and returned to her parents’ home.
Her contacts with him were cut for three months. When she went to a car wash station in the Shuwaikh Industrial Area, the worker told her about the two wiretapping devices in her car, one for voice and the other to track the location.
The woman returned to the house and told her brothers and her father about it. She also called a maid in her husband’s house and asked her who put the two devices in her car.
She was told that her husband had asked her a while ago to provide her with the key of her car and gave her some money.
Bid to cancel verdict:
Kuwait’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said efforts are ongoing to get the Iraqi government to cancel the verdict issued by the Iraqi judiciary during the era of the former government which is in favor of an Iraqi ‘infiltrator’ who was caught inside Kuwait’s territorial waters, reports Al-Anba daily quoting legal sources.
The same sources said the plaintiff had sued the Kuwaiti government for large sum of money because the plaintiff (the Iraqi) claimed in his lawsuit he had suffered moral and material damage when Kuwait’s Navy seized his boat on Aug 2, 1993, after he and five other men had allegedly entered Kuwait’s waters illegally.
An executive decision was then issued by the then Iraqi Ministry of Justice on May 25, 2017 to seize Kuwaiti ships and planes which was canceled on Aug 30, 2017 through diplomatic efforts.
The source pointed out the Foreign Ministry follows through its diplomatic mission in Baghdad the course of actions taken by the Iraqi government to cancel the ruling, to stop the procedures of its implementation on one hand and confirm that the incident took place in the Kuwaiti waters.
If at all there was a dispute the plaintiff should have filed a lawsuit with the Kuwaiti judiciary since the incident happened inside Kuwait’s territorial waters.