Man sues govt for wrongful conviction

KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti man is suing two ministries and seeking KD300,000 in damages for having to spend one full year in jail for crimes he never committed. Lawyer Mohammad Al-Majedi said in a statement on Monday that his client was arrested in July 2001 when he was still a student and taken to spend a five-year jail sentence in a drugs related case in which he was convicted in absentia. The jail term was in addition to one year sentence for failing to comply with the court orders. The man was released on parole after spending a year in jail during which he managed to memorize the Holy Quran and that qualified him for the early release. It was then that the man discovered that his passport which had been missing prior to his arrest had been forged. “The real perpetrator impersonated my client and that led to wrongful sentencing,” the lawyer explained. The lawsuits were filed against the undersecretaries of both the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Justice who are accused of “destroying [the plaintiff’s] future”.

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