A Kuwaiti court obliges the Ministry of Interior to compensate a female citizen in the case of “imitating the opposite sex”

The Civil Court of Cassation in Kuwait issued a ruling obligating the Ministry of Interior to grant a female citizen 4,000 dinars as moral compensation for her arrest without evidence or requirements, under the pretext of “imitating the opposite sex.”
Regarding the details of this ruling, the court explained that “the employees of the Ministry of Interior arrested the female citizen and took her to the police station under the justification of the crime of imitating the opposite sex, and she was seized and presented to the Criminal Investigation and Ethics Investigations Department,” noting that “the material actions that the police did involve defective behavior.” and deviation from the duties of the job.

The court added: “The commission of material acts by the policemen…there is nothing to prevent them from being held accountable before the judiciary for reparations for the damages caused by those who followed them for any mistake that led to the assault on personal freedom.”

It should be noted that the judgment of discrimination came after the citizenship case was filed against a number of policemen in the ministry and the undersecretary, demanding compensation of 12,000 dinars (about $40,000), after she was arrested and detained on a charge without evidence in 2012, and she was later released after she It turned out that the charge did not apply to her.