THERE IS STILL WORK TO BE DONE, ACCORDING TO US 'HUMAN RIGHTS' STUDY ON KUWAIT

  • 15/04/2022

Kuwait City: While the Kuwaiti government's steps to penalise officials who commit infractions, whether in security or government agencies, were praised in the US State Department's human rights report for 2021, it was noted that the anti-corruption law was not successfully implemented. According to a report released yesterday, the Anti-Corruption Authority "Nazaha" received 431 corruption reports in November and referred 13 cases to the Public Prosecution, one case to the courts, and one case was withdrawn. According to the Kuwait Economic Society, the state loses roughly 1.2 billion dinars annually due to corruption, "as many significant examples of corruption have happened," according to the report. 


The report stated that “Nazaha” continued to refer government officials involved in corrupt practices to the Public Prosecution, including officers from the Ministry of Interior on charges of forging official documents. The report indicated that the Ministry of Interior implemented disciplinary measures, including fines, detention, dismissal or dismissal from professional jobs, stressing at the same time that there were no reports of disappearances from or on behalf of government authorities. 

The report revealed that the Ministry of Interior’s Monitoring and Inspection Department received 591 complaints against ministry employees on charges of abuse of power and arbitrary application of the law. It investigated 413 complaints, 71 of which resulted in disciplinary measures, and 96 of them were referred to the courts.

The report pointed out that the Publicity, Media and Publications Affairs Prosecution considered nearly 9,000 cases related to social media or traditional media publications over the past three years. The report explained that local media reported that from January to November 2021, there were 120 suicides, mostly among the migrant worker community. For her part, the US Ambassador to the country, Alina Romanowski, said in a statement on “Twitter” commenting on the report of the US State Department, that defending human rights is in the interest of every country, adding, “While Kuwait continues to make progress in this regard, there is still more work to be done.”

    

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