Kuwait.. Postponing the trial of officers accused of torturing their colleague in the State Security Service

The Kuwaiti Criminal Court decided, in its second session to try 4 officers accused of torturing their colleague in the State Security Agency, to postpone the case to the next May 17 session to summon the prosecution and prosecution witnesses.

The Kuwaiti newspaper "Al-Qabas" reported that the defendants' defense requested an adjournment to review the case.

The defense of one of the accused also attended and requested to summon the Director General of Preventive Security at the Ministry of Interior to ask him about the accusation against his client, and specifically about the orders issued by him to the employees of the State Security Service in absolute cooperation with the Monitoring and Inspection Department.

In the case, 4 officers of different ranks were arrested, as part of an investigation into the case of torturing an officer in the Ministry of Interior by placing him in a “cooling room” by members of the State Security apparatus in Kuwait.

And the Kuwaiti Ministry of Interior announced last January that Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Ahmed Al-Mansour issued decisions to “stop 4 officers of different ranks, in line with the course of investigations conducted by the Public Prosecution, regarding the suspicion of abuse by some of its employees during the investigations.”

The Kuwaiti newspaper, Al-Qabas, had quoted sources on January 4, 2022, that “the Public Prosecution investigated elements of the State Security Service, accusing them of kidnapping and torturing a leading officer in the Ministry of Interior.”

The sources told the newspaper that the defendants justified their torture of the officer as part of "followed military procedures," and they also claimed that what they had done was done with the knowledge of leaders in the "service".

These sources revealed that the accused put the officer in a "cooling room" for several days, and when "the officer collapsed physically, the accused rushed to take him to the hospital, after they discovered that the victim had passed out from the extreme cold."

In their explanation of the detention of the officer in the cold room as mentioned, the defendants said that this officer “had important information that he refused to disclose.”

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