KUWAIT CITY, April 19: Personnel from the Sentences Enforcement Department have arrested an unidentified Iranian woman who had been sentenced in absentia to 12 months imprisonment for soliciting ‘services’ through the social media, reports Al-Anba daily. The daily added, the Iranian was seized from an apartment of her friend in Salmiya. She has been referred to the Central Prison to serve the jail term and deported after serving the sentence.

Prisoner beaten: A 15-year-old ‘inmate’ of the social care home in Salmiya has filed a complaint with the Juvenile Prosecution accusing two supervisors of beating him just because they found on him a pack of cigarettes, reports Al-Rai daily. According to sources, the supervisors should have reported the matter to his seniors instead of taking action and the punishment would be either deprivation of pocket money or spending time for a certain period. A reliable source said the administration of the ‘Home’ has threatened to cause harm to the juvenile if he doesn’t withdraw the complaint.

Expat swindled: An unidentified expatriate has filed a complaint with the Khaitan Police Station accusing ‘someone’ of swindling him, reports Al-Anba daily. The man told police the swindler called him and told him that he had won KD 20,000 prize money and asked for his personal information and bank details and he obliged. He added, after a few seconds he received a message on his cell phone that KD 1,450 had been withdrawn from his account.