KUWAIT CITY, June 7: The Court of Appeals Monday upheld the verdict of a lower court which had ruled that the State Security case No 9/2009 of MP Khalid Al-Tahous should not be heard by the court because the National Assembly has refused to lift his parliamentary immunity. Tahous is charged with damaging the reputation of HH the Amir.
On Oct 13, 2009, the Criminal Court had issued a ruling saying the case should not be heard by the court because the National Assembly had refused to lift the parliamentary immunity of Tahous.
Four charges have been filed against Tahous. They are damaging the reputation of HH the Amir, criticizing the Amir’s rights, organizing groups of people to confront the securitymen and issuing threats against the Minister of Interior by way of threatening to cause harm to securitymen.
The session was presided over by Judge Saleh Al-Muraishid.

Demonstrators face legal action: Several female employees working for the Sterilization Section at the Adan Hospital demonstrated in front of the hospital against working on public holidays, reports a local Arabic daily.
Minister of Health Dr Hilal Al-Sayer has ordered to refer the demonstrators to the Legal Affairs Department of the Ministry for interrogation because their absence from work negatively affects the work and endangers the lives of patients because the sterilized tools are used during surgeries.

MP sues two KU officials: MP Dr Salwa Al-Jassar has filed a lawsuit against the Manager of the Kuwait University Dr Abdullah Al-Fuhaid and Dean of the Faculty of Education Dr Abdulrahman Al-Ahmad, reports Al-Qabas daily.
The MP is accusing the men of stealing the contents of her office soon after she won the National Assembly elections.

Juvenile flees care home: Police are looking for an unidentified juvenile who is said to have escaped from the Social Care Home in Sulaibiya, reports Al-Rai daily. The daily did not give more details.

Plane lands on one engine: The inbound flight — Airbus A320 — arriving from Bahrain made a safe landing at the Kuwait International Airport after one of its engines stopped working, reports Al-Qabas daily. The daily did not give more details.

Suit warned as doctors clash: A female doctor at the Kuwait University has threatened to file a case against her male Islamist colleague, reports Al-Shahed daily.
According to reports the two doctors were involved in an argument over academic issues. The argument snowballed and they started accusing each other and when the male doctor accused his female counterpart because she was not wearing Islamic clothes, the latter retorted saying we are not working in a university inside Tora Bora (the mountains of Afghanistan).