KUWAIT CITY: The Criminal Court acquitted Sunday 13 Kuwaiti writers and editors-in-chief of insulting a Kuwaiti man in the articles they have written and published in local papers.
In his memo, the lawyer — who represented the plaintiff — said former MP Khudair Al-Enezi, MP Mohamed Hayef Al-Mutairi, Bassam Al-Shatti, Ahmad Al-Kous, Ahmad Rashid Al-Fahad, Yousef Al-Fayhan, Esam Al-Felaij, Marzouq Al-Mutairi, MP Khaled Al-Sultan, Waleed Bu Rabbaa, Abdullah Al-Hadlaq, Mohamed Al-Awadhi, Khalifa Al-Sabah and Jassem Budai, insulted his client when they claimed that his sect is an infidel.  This statement was published in two local papers — Al-Watan Arabic daily and Al-Rai — so the complainant sued the editors-in-chief of the two dailies.
The statement was published after the plaintiff submitted a letter to Kuwait Municipality requesting land for the construction of a temple for the Bohra community in Kuwait.
The session was presided over by Judge Mohammad Al-Khalaf.

By Moamen Al-Masri
Special to the Arab Times