KUWAIT CITY, June 8: The Court of Appeals upheld the verdict of a lower court, which had previously sentenced an American woman and a Bangladeshi laborer to 10 years in jail to be followed by deportation for trafficking in drugs.
Case files indicate the woman was arrested in an entrapment when she agreed to deliver an undisclosed quantity of hashish to an undercover agent. During interrogations at the Criminal Investigation Department, the woman admitted the crime.
The security officers arranged another entrapment the following day, resulting in the arrest of a Bangladeshi laborer with some drugs and weighing scale in his possession. He also confessed to the crime.
The session was presided over by Judge Salem Al-Khudair.
 

‘Scribe beaten by stick’: The Public Prosecution listened to MPs Musallam Al-Barrak and Khalid Al-Tahous, in a case filed by journalist Mohammad Sanadan who was beaten by the Special Forces during a seminar at the diwaniya of MP Jama’an Al-Harbash.

Sources said the Public Prosecution is looking into the case filed by the complainant, in which he accused Colonel Abdullah Safah, Colonel Shukri Al-Najaar, and former Undersecretary of the Interior Ministry Lieutenant General Ahmad Rujaib. The two lawmakers testified that the complainant was beaten with stick by Safah, on the orders of Al-Najaar.

In another case, the Misdemeanor Court of Appeals adjourned the case involving MP Faisal Al-Muslim and Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammed’s cheque issue to June 22.

Al-Muslim has been charged for the copy of Sheikh Nasser’s cheque he obtained from the branch manager of Burgan Bank, in violation of confidential bank documents. In the last session, MPs Musallam Al-Barrak, Marzouq Al-Ghanim, Jama’an Al-Harbash, Waleed Tabtabaei and Abdulrahman Al-Anjeri testified in court. Also, the Speaker of Parliament assigned MPs Abdullah Al-Roumi and Hussein Al-Huraiti to defend Al-Muslim’s right to parliamentary activities.