Torture of a Kuwaiti: Minister resigns 17, January 2011
Posted by thegulfblog.com in Kuwait.Tags: Kuwait's interior minister resigns, Kuwait's Parliament, Torture, Torture in Kuwait, Torture in Kuwait police station
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Last week a Kuwaiti, Mohammad Ghazzai al-Mutair, died in a police station as a result of “excessive torture”. He had been arrested in Ahamdi in Kuwait’s south transporting 24 bottles of Whiskey; something that is wholly illegal in Kuwait.
An opposition MP who investigated the claim said that he had been ‘brutally tortured and had a stick inserted into his anus’ and he arrived at hospital with his hands and feet tied.
The Kuwaiti Minister of Interior, Sheikh Jabir Al Sabah, submitted his resignation after persistent demands, while 5 policemen have been suspended.
While there are many serious flaws with Kuwait’s Parliament and issues with its ingrained rentireism (as I often note), there cannot be many Arab countries where their national print media would have followed such a case and where the national representative body could force the resignation of a Royal Minister.
The Gulf blog 
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