‘There is no categorization of political issues in laws’

KUWAIT CITY, April 26: The Attorney General, Counselor Dirar Al-Asousi said there is no classification of cases in the penal laws or any other laws especially the socalled opinion cases, tweeters or politicians, reports Al-Qabas daily.

Counselor Al-Asousi described the parliamentary question directed to the Minister of Justice and submitted by MP Thamer Al-Dhafiri about the number of convicted tweeters, opinion-holders and politicians, the number of years in prison and financial fines slapped against them since the implementation public meetings and gatherings, the Law of Publications and Publishing laws, and the Law on Combating Information Technology Crimes, the question is characterized by ‘ignorance’ and not compatible with any objective, temporal or statistical control.

The response to the parliamentary question – a copy of which has been obtained by AlQabas – clarified that the criminal statistics are not based on a personal basis, and therefore they do not know the classification of the convicted person according to them being tweeters, opinion-holders or politicians.

In addition, the decree-law and the two mentioned laws have their own provisions were applied in 1979, 2006 and 2015 respectively, which means that its provisions are applied on a number of facts. The response indicated that the laws referred to in the parliamentary question are all criminal and not political.

The legislator intended to regulate the right of assembly based on what is published by newspapers and information technology means in general.