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    Mass Execution to be carried out soon

    KUWAIT: Thirty-six convicts sentenced to death will be executed at Nayef Palace soon. They include a Kuwaiti woman who was found guilty of burning a tent during a wedding in Jahra in 2009, which left 50 people dead. Other death row inmates have been convicted of charges that include first degree murder, drug trafficking, kidnap and rape.

    http://news.kuwaittimes.net/website/...-ban-e-shisha/
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    Kuwait sentences parents to death for killing toddler

    A court in Kuwait on Monday (Jan 2) sentenced a couple to death after finding them guilty of torturing their three-year-old daughter until she died, it said in a statement.

    The parents, both Kuwaitis, were arrested in May and accused of beating and torturing the girl until she died and then keeping her body in a freezer for a week.

    The court statement only gave the verdict but, according to media reports at the time of their arrest, they had been annoyed by their daughter's constant crying.

    The father, 26-year-old Salem Buhan, and mother, 23-year-old Amira Hussein, were charged with murder after police found burn marks on the shoulders and legs of the toddler's body, according to the interior ministry.

    The ministry also said they were drug addicts.

    The verdict is not final as it must be reviewed by the appeals and supreme courts.

    Executions in Kuwait are carried out by hanging.

    Barring the execution of five men in mid-2013, the Gulf emirate has stopped executing people since 2007 although dozens of men and women are on death row.

    http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/...r/3408494.html
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    Kuwait hangs seven people including royal

    Kuwait on Wednesday hanged seven people including a member of the ruling family and a woman who burned dozens of people to death at a wedding party, the authorities said.

    The three women and four men are the first to be executed in the oil-rich Gulf state since mid-2013.

    They included two Kuwaitis, two Egyptians and one each from Bangladesh, the Philippines and Ethiopia, a statement by the public prosecution office said.

    Sheikh Faisal Abdullah Al-Sabah, the first royal to be executed in the emirate, was convicted of shooting and killing his nephew, another member of the ruling family, in 2010 over a dispute.

    Nusra al-Enezi, the other Kuwaiti, set fire to a tent in 2009 during a wedding party in an apparent act of revenge against her husband for taking a second wife.

    Many of the 57 people killed were women and children.

    Enezi, who was 23 years old at the time, threw petrol on the tent, where people were celebrating inside, and burned it down in one of the most devastating crimes in the history of Kuwait.

    The Filipina and Ethiopian women were domestic helpers convicted of murdering members of their employers' families in two unrelated crimes.

    - Manila expresses sadness -

    Philippines presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella said the presidential palace was saddened by the execution of Jakatia Pawa.

    Abella said the Philippine government had done everything it could to save Pawa, including legal assistance to ensure that her rights were respected and all legal procedures were followed.

    Manila "exerted all efforts to preserve her life, including diplomatic means and appeals for compassion. Execution, however, could no longer be forestalled under Kuwaiti laws... We pray for her and her bereaved family," he added.

    Around 240,000 Filipinos are working and living in Kuwait, some of them domestic helpers.

    The two Egyptians were also convicted of premeditated murder while the Bangladeshi was convicted of abduction and rape.

    Kuwait resumed executions in 2013 after a moratorium of six years.

    In April 2013, authorities hanged three men convicted of murder.

    Two months later, two Egyptians, convicted of murder and abduction, were executed.

    One of them, Hajjaj Saadi was convicted of abducting and raping 17 children below the age of 10. He denied the charges in court.

    Following those executions, human rights organisations strongly condemned the resumption of hangings in Kuwait.

    Kuwait has executed 74 men and six women since it introduced the death penalty in the mid-1960. Most of those condemned have been convicted murderers or drug traffickers.

    Around 50 prisoners are on death row.

    Courts in Kuwait, which has an elected parliament and an active political scene, have in the past handed down death sentences to members of the Al-Sabah that has ruled the country for two and a half centuries.

    Capital punishment is widespread in the Gulf region, particularly in Iran and Saudi Arabia.

    Every year Tehran and Riyadh execute hundreds of people, mostly for murder and drug trafficking.

    http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/w...article/484391
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    KUWAIT: COURT SENTENCES SEVEN TO DEATH FOR RAPING DISABLED BOY

    Kuwait sentenced seven men to death on Wednesday for kidnapping and raping a disabled 13-year-old boy.

    An appeals court in the Gulf state of Kuwait overruled a lower court’s decision to hand the seven 10-year jail terms in April, the victim’s lawyer Ibrahim Al-Bathani told AFP news agency. The death penalty in Kuwait is execution by hanging.

    The victim’s attackers—four Kuwaitis, a Yemeni national, an Iraqi and a person without state documentation—were all aged between 18 and 23. They allegedly kidnapped the victim in September 2016, taking him to a chalet where they sexually abused him.

    They filmed the assault and blackmailed the child, telling him they would publish the footage on social media if he told others about the assault, according to his lawyer. But authorities found the footage on some of the accused phones.

    The teenager is a Kuwaiti citizen who has a partial mental disability; - his lawyer did not further elaborate on it. “This is a historic verdict,” Bathani said. But the Kuwaiti Supreme Court must ratify the ruling, since it has the final say on such cases.

    Despite the seriousness of the crime, rights groups have warned of an “alarming” trend of executions in the region. Kuwait executed seven people in January, six for murder, one for rape and kidnapping, the first executions in the country since 2013.

    “Executing seven people in one day shows Kuwait is moving in exactly the wrong direction on the death penalty,” Sarah Leah Whitson, HRW's Middle East director, said in a statement.

    “The Kuwait government should be reinstating the moratorium on the death penalty instead of hanging seven people,” Whitson stated. She said that the Gulf state’s decision reflected a “growing trend in the region to increase the use of, or lift moratoriums on, the death penalty.”

    Saudi Arabia and Iran have executed hundreds of people since 2014, while Jordan ended an eight-year moratorium in December 2014, executing 11 people. Bahrain executed three people in January after ending a six-year moratorium.

    http://www.newsweek.com/kuwait-court...led-boy-618940
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    Kuwait executes seven, including two women

    Hangings are first in the country since 2017

    By Ismaeel Naar
    The National

    Kuwaiti authorities have carried out the death sentence on seven people convicted of murder, including two women, in the first executions in the Gulf country since 2017.

    Prosecutors said the executions were carried out by hanging after the death sentences were approved by Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Nawaf.

    An Ethiopian woman and a Kuwaiti woman were hanged on Wednesday, along with five men — three Kuwaitis, a Syrian and a Pakistani.

    The executions are the first since January 25, 2017, when Kuwait also hanged seven people, including a member of the royal family.

    Kuwait has executed dozens of people since it introduced the death penalty in the mid-1960s. Most of the executions have been for murderer or drug trafficking.

    In April 2013, three men convicted of murder were hanged. Two months later, two Egyptians convicted of murder and abduction were executed.

    Kuwait’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the death sentences came in accordance with the Kuwaiti Penal Code 16 of 1960 and its amendments “after exhausting all levels of litigation”.

    “These sentences, which were implemented, were based on conclusive evidence that the convicts committed the crimes ascribed to them,” said Ghanim Al Ghanim, Kuwaiti Assistant Foreign Minister for Legal Affairs.

    “The evidence varied between witness testimonies and the defendants’ admission of their guilt. These were very serious crimes.”

    The first death sentence was carried out in Kuwait on May 17, 1964. To date, 84 people have been executed, including 20 Kuwaitis and 15 Pakistanis.

    https://www.thenationalnews.com/gulf...ing-two-women/

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    Kuwait executes 5 prisoners, including a man convicted in 2015 Islamic State-claimed mosque bombing

    By Nick El Hajj
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    DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kuwait said Thursday it executed five prisoners, including an inmate convicted over the bombing of a Shiite mosque in 2015 that killed 27 people and was claimed by the Islamic State group.

    The inmates were hanged at the Central Prison, Kuwait’s Public Prosecution said in a statement. Prosecutors said the five include the man convicted in the mosque attack, Abdulrahman Sabah Idan, three people convicted of murder and a convicted drug dealer from Sri Lanka. One of the convicted murderers was Egyptian, another was Kuwaiti.

    Idan, known as Saud, was a so-called Bidoon, a group largely made up of descendants of desert nomads considered stateless by the Kuwaiti government. During his trial, prosecutors described him as driving the Saudi suicide bomber to the Imam al-Sadiq Mosque in Kuwait City.

    The 2015 bombing occurred during midday Friday prayers inside the mosque, one of Kuwait’s oldest for Shiites. The Islamic State group, which at the time controlled large areas in both Syria and Iraq, claimed the attack, which also wounded over 220 people.

    The Sunni extremist group views Shiites as apostates deserving of death.

    https://apnews.com/article/kuwait-ex...68d6354a3e8716
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