Cassation court ‘commutes’ death penalty of Pakistani to life in jail in Indian’s murder

Egyptian blogger jailed for ‘insulting’ leadership

KUWAIT CITY, Oct 9: The Court of Cassation has overturned the verdict of the Court of First Instance and commuted the death sentence of a Pakistani man to life imprisonment, reports AlAnba daily.

According to the sources the Pakistani works for a Kuwaiti family and has been convicted of stabbing to death an Indian over financial matters.

The suspect summarized the incident saying he invited the victim to the outhouse of the Kuwaiti villa and demanded the victim pay the money which he had borrowed from him.

He said both men were involved in a heated argument and he lost his temper and stabbed the man in the stomach with a knife. The Indian resisted and pushed him and in a fit of anger he then stabbed the victim several times in the back, chest and abdomen until he died.

The Public Prosecutor had charged the Pakistani with premeditated murder.

2-year

jail

for blogger:

The Criminal Court convicted an Egyptian tweeter for insulting the Amir and sentenced him to two years imprisonment with hard labor and to be deported after serving the sentence. The court also ordered the seizure of his cellphone, reports AlAnba daily.

The Public Prosecutor had referred the accused to trial after he was charged with committing the offence on Twitter using his cellphone in contravention of the internal security laws and misusing information technology.

On the other hand, the Criminal Court, headed by Chancellor Ahmed El-Yassin, has sentenced a passenger to 7 years imprisonment and ordered him to pay 100 dinars to suspend the sentence for picking up a fight with one of the members of the cabin crew and fellow passengers after take-off and also damaged some of the contents.

The security sources said this happened during a flight from Kuwait to Tehran and the plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Iran.

Blogger acquitted:

The Court of Cassation upheld the decision of Criminal Court that acquitted a blogger of crimes related to state security after discovering the truth about an account used in uploading offensive tweets, indicating the account was created by another person based on malice just to put the accused in trouble.

Attorney Muhammad Al-Mutairi stated that his client denied the accusations from the start of investigations, and despite the account was registered in his name, they could not prove without reasonable doubt that it belongs to him since anybody can create an account and name it as they like.

Al-Mutairi added that results of investigations cannot be considered reliable evidence without other supporting evidences, noting the tweets were uploaded for over 2 months and it is illogical that his client was involved. The Doha port customs officers have foiled an attempt to smuggle 400 kilos of hashish, reports Al-Rai daily.

The daily quoting customs sources said the hashish was hidden among a cargo of onions which came from Iran.

Meanwhile, Kuwait Customs Administration inspectors arrested a fashionista at Kuwait International airport in possession of 3 packets of illicit drug ‘Shabu’. A security source said the renowned fashionista was arrested and referred to the General Department of Drug Control for legal action.