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    Kuwait Parliament Approves Death Penalty for Insulting God

    Kuwait’s parliament approved a law imposing the death penalty on any Muslim who insults God, his prophets, messengers, Prophet Mohammad’s wives or the Koran, in any form of expression, if they don’t repent.

    The bill, which adds articles to Kuwait’s penal code, was passed today by 40 lawmakers, including all Cabinet ministers present, and rejected by five Shiite Muslims as well as one liberal lawmaker.

    “Islam is a religion of tolerance, peace and acceptance, but that doesn’t mean it should be stepped on,” lawmaker Ali al-Deqbasi told the house before the vote. AbdulHamid Dashti, who voted against the bill, said the law “should be broadened to criminalize those who insult all beliefs and faiths.”

    According to the law, judges must give defendants the option of repenting, which, if taken, reduces the sentence to at least five years in prison and a fine of 10,000 dinars ($36,000). Non-Muslims will be sentenced to 10 years in prison if convicted of violating the law, which will take effect after signed by the emir and then published in the Official Gazette within a month of parliamentary approval.

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-0...lting-god.html
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    Another reason NOT to travel into these countries...
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    Kuwait ruler rejects death penalty for religious crimes

    Kuwait's emir, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, has refused to sign a bill passed by parliament stipulating the death penalty for major religious offences, sources in the assembly said Wednesday.

    The oil-rich Gulf state's government has sent the bill back to parliament on Wednesday, sources said, indicating that it had been rejected by the emir.

    The emir has the power to refuse bills passed by the elected parliament, but the assembly can override the rejection by passing the bill again with a two-thirds majority of the house membership of 49 MPs and 16 cabinet ministers.

    The bill, passed by parliament last month, stipulates that Muslims who curse God, the Muslim holy book Koran, all prophets and the wives of Islam's Prophet Mohammed will be punished by death or life in jail.

    The bill introduced two new articles to the Gulf state's penal code specifically to stiffen penalties for such offences. Non-Muslims who commit the same offence face a jail term of not less than 10 years, according to the bill.

    Defendants who repent in court will be spared the death penalty, but will get a jail sentence for five years and a fine of $36,000 or one of them, while repentance by those who repeat the crime is not acceptable, the bill says.

    The move to harden penalties for religious crimes came after authorities in March arrested Shiite tweeter Hamad al-Naqi for allegedly cursing the Prophet Mohammed, his wife Aisha and some companions.

    Naqi was on Monday sentenced by the lower court to 10 years in jail, according to his lawyer Khaled al-Shatti who said he will challenge the term in the appeals court.

    Kuwaiti courts have in the past several months jailed activists from both sects over religious offences.

    Sectarian tensions have flared in Kuwait between the Sunni majority and Shiites, who form about a third of the native population of 1.17 million, reflecting rising regional tensions between the two Islamic sects.

    Offences including drug trafficking and murder earn the death penalty in Kuwait. However, the last execution was implemented in the Gulf country in May 2007.

    http://news.yahoo.com/kuwait-ruler-r...9Pjy8AvdTQtDMD
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    Kuwaiti woman gets death sentence for murdering Filipina maid

    Kuwait's supreme court upheld Monday a death sentence against a woman for murdering her Filipina maid after torturing her, and confirmed a 10-year sentence on her disabled husband.

    The ruling is final and cannot be challenged but could be commuted to a life term by the ruler of the Gulf emirate. Executions in Kuwait are carried out by hanging.

    The Kuwaiti woman was convicted of premeditated murder based on evidence that she had regularly tortured her maid before driving over her in a remote desert area.

    The husband was handed the jail term for "assisting her," according to a copy of the ruling.

    The couple were both sentenced to death by the lower court in February last year. Three months later, the appeals court upheld the death penalty against the woman but commuted the sentence against her husband to 10 years in jail.

    According to the ruling, the woman beat her maid for several days until her health deteriorated.

    The couple then took the maid "unconscious" to a remote area in the desert where they threw her from the back seat of the car and then drove over her until she died.

    More than 100,000 Filipinos, many of them women working as maids, live in Kuwait, where some 600,000 domestic helpers, mostly Asians, are employed.

    http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story...-filipina-maid
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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 introduces death penalty for ‘cursing God and prophets’

    Kuwaiti MPs this week approved a law with a death penalty for Muslims who curse God, the Koran, all prophets and the wives of Islam's Prophet Mohammed. Non-Muslims who commit the same offence face a jail term of not less than 10 years, according to the bill.

    Defendants who repent in court will be spared capital punishment but will get a jail sentence for five years and a fine of $36,000 or one of them, while repentance by those who repeat the crime is not acceptable, the bill says.

    "We do not want to execute people with opinions or thought because Islam respects these people... But we need this legislation because incidents of cursing God have increased. We need to deter them," opposition MP Ali al-Deqbasi said during the debate.

    Shiite MPs also demanded that the bill impose the death penalty on anyone who curses their sect's 12 revered Imams, but the Sunni-dominated parliament rejected their request.

    The bill becomes effective after the government accepts it, the emir signs it and it is published in the official gazette within one month.

    Shiite MP Abdulhameed Dashti said the bill was unconstitutional and against the principles of Islam. "Why are we trying to show Islam as a religion of death and blood when it is actually the opposite of that," he asked.

    In March authorities arrested a Shiite man for allegedly cursing the Prophet Mohammed, his wife and some companions in a tweet. The suspect, Hamad al-Naqi, is being detained pending trial later this month.

    Kuwaiti courts have in the past several months jailed activists from both sects over religious offences.

    http://www.secularism.org.uk/news/20...d-and-prophets
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    Death penalty upheld for Kuwaiti royal

    Kuwait's supreme court has upheld a death sentence for a member of the Gulf state's ruling family convicted of killing his nephew, also a royal.

    Sheikh Faisal Abdullah Al-Sabah was convicted of shooting Sheikh Basel Salem Al-Sabah to death at the latter's palace in June 2010, apparently over a dispute on board membership at a sports club.

    The sentence is final but can be commuted to life in jail by the emir of the Gulf state where executions are carried out by hanging.

    Sheikh Basel was the grandson of the late former emir Sheikh Sabah Salem Al-Sabah and the son of late minister of defence and interior Sheikh Salem Al-Sabah.

    Courts in Kuwait, which has an elected parliament and a vibrant political life, have in the past handed down death sentences to members of the Al-Sabah ruling family.

    Kuwait resumed executions earlier this year after a moratorium since 2007. Around 50 prisoners are currently on death row.

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    Kuwait: Police officer sentenced to death for raping Filipina

    The Criminal Court has sentenced a lance corporal in the General Traffic Department to death by hanging for kidnapping a Filipino woman, raping her and attempting to murder her, reports Al-Rai daily.

    The case papers show the accused stopped a taxi in which there were two female passengers. He then asked them for their IDs and since one of them did not hold a valid residence permit, he told her to get into the police car.

    He then took her to an open ground and raped her although she pleaded with the man not to and just because she resisted his attempts, he stabbed her.

    To hide his crime, the accused then decided to kill her and stabbed her several times and dragged her to a faraway place making her easy meat for stray dogs. Luckily the victim survived, walked to a main road and waved to a passerby who took her to a hospital.

    The victim, her compatriot friend and the taxi driver managed to pick the suspect from a legal lineup. The accused pretended to be suffering from mental problems but the Psychology Medicine Hospital proved otherwise.

    http://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.com/#ixzz33u6TSWUQ
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