Campaign launched by many societies to mobilize efforts, fight visa business

‘Need to lay foundations for justice, rule of law’

KUWAIT CITY, May 4: President of the Board of Directors of the Transparency Society, Majed Al-Mutairi, said 10 public benefit societies have launched a campaign under the title ‘I am responsible’, to mobilize national efforts to encourage all citizens and residents to report visa traders, reports AlSeyassah daily.

The campaign also aims to lay the foundations of justice and the rule of law and put pressure on the officials to take a historic decision to eliminate the crime of corruption that has been continuing for a long time to toy with people’s feelings and sabotage the demographics.

The officials have been urged to amend the current legislation to put an end and nip in the bud this absurd behavior which in the end will guarantee the rights of workers and employers according to constitutional and humanitarian principles and international treaties.

In a press statement Al-Mutairi said the campaign believes in the oversight role civil organizations can play in combating visa trade – the human trafficking crime that is forbidden at world level and which has harmed the reputation of Kuwait, the country of humanity.

This crime has to a vast extent impeded the state’s health efforts to contain the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic and caused a major imbalance in the demographics over three decades, and has produced many security, social and economic problems in the labor market, Al-Mutairi added.

He also said the campaign came as an affirmation of our societal responsibility to tackle a full-fledged crime of corruption – crime of trafficking in human beings, bribery, influence exploitation and graft.

He added the campaign has launched an electronic link to report visa traders and called on citizens, expatriates and all those who were subjected to exploitation to exercise their humanitarian role and report this crime.

He pointed out that the societies participating in the campaign are the Kuwaiti Transparency Society, the Kuwaiti Economists Association, the Kuwait Society for the Protection of Public Funds, the Kuwaiti Society for Human Rights, the Kuwait Lawyers Association, the Accountants and Auditors Association, the Public Relations Association, the Women’s Social Cultural Association, the Society of Engineers, and the Kuwaiti Sociology Association.

Prisoners release:

The Court of Appeal has issued a decision to release 300 prisoners, reports Al-Seyassah daily.

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Although the Mawaed Al-Rahman (charity iftar buffets set up throughout the country during the holy month of Ramadan) have ‘vanished’ from in front of mosques and public squares this Ramadan, the meals are now distributed in areas which are under

Asousi confirmed the release of prisoners comes under the exceptional circumstances imposed by the ‘Corona’ epidemic and includes those whose files are related to overlapping sanctions or stopping their implementation, explaining that the 300 released are citizens, expatriates and bedoun.

Judicial sources told the daily the release is aimed at reduce the number of detainees in the Central Prison. The sources added the hearings at the

total curfew especially in Jleeb AlShuyoukh and Mahboula, reports Al-Seyassah daily.

Al-Seyassah daily spotted an aspect of life in the isolated regions during the distribution of meals to workers who waited in long queues – a scenario which

Criminal Court to look into the cases are set for today and tomorrow.

In the meantime, Minister of Health Sheikh Dr. Bassel Al-Sabah, in a letter to the President of the Supreme Judiciary Council, Counselor Yusuf Al-Mutawa, said the number of people attending the court sessions must not exceed 15 in one hall and the distance between each person must be at least two meters and that all those who enter the halls must be checked

was never before seen in Kuwait.

The workers in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh are cordoned off by barbed wires reminiscent of a movie scene during war time as volunteers delivered meals through openings in the barbed wall.

for rise in body temperature, in addition to preventing entry to anyone with symptoms of respiratory infection (frequent coughing or sneezing).

He also stressed on the necessity of providing alcohol-based hand sanitizer with at least 61% alcohol, surgical gloves which should be worn during the session, prevent handshaking and crowding at the entrance to the hall, and taking care while handling any office tools.