Kuwaiti judiciary: Mental illness does not absolve the accused of responsibility

The Kuwaiti Court of Cassation upheld the principle of the criminal and appellate courts that mental illness is not always a reason for lack of criminal responsibility for the accused who commits a criminal act.

The Court of Cassation rejected the appeal against a three-year prison sentence for the accusation of broadcasting false news and publicly appealing the predicate of the emirate, stressing that whoever takes a selected psychotropic substance with knowledge of the truth of its matter, is subject to the ruling of being fully aware.

The court confirmed that it is decided that mental illness and the like, with which there is no penal responsibility, is the one that would destroy your awareness or result in the loss of the ability to completely direct the will.

The court concluded: “As for all other mental illnesses that diminish or weaken these two faculties so that they do not reach the point where a person loses all his awareness or will, they are not considered a reason for lack of responsibility.”

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