KUWAIT CITY, April 5: The Appeals Court upheld the decision of a lower court to acquit a Kuwaiti citizen of insulting his mother-in-law. According to the case file, the defendant’s mother-in-law filed a complaint alleging that he verbally abused her. This was after the mother-in-law, her daughter, and other witnesses were referred to the police station following a complaint filed by the defendant against his wife when he saw her with a stranger on the street. They then followed his wife to her mother’s house, quickly entering it.

The citizen’s lawyer, Attorney Abdul Mohsen Al-Qattan, appeared in court to defend him and argued that there was no conclusive evidence to support the accusation against his client. He pointed out that the case documents, the subject of the accusation, are devoid of evidence with legal merit. Al-Qattan said the Public Prosecution presented evidence to prove the charge against his client, “which consisted of the complainant’s allegations that were not without malice and fabrication.” He stressed that his client denied all the accusations hurled at him and that he neither insulted nor defamed the complainant

By Jaber Al-Hamoud
 Al-Seyassah/Arab Times Staff