KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait’s supreme court yesterday sentenced to death two police officers convicted of torturing a citizen to death, overturning life imprisonment handed by lower courts.
It also jailed four officers for 15 years each and a fifth for two years, and ordered their dismissal from the force. Two other policemen were each fined 75 dinars ($260), while the remaining 11 defendants were acquitted, including two foreigners who worked at a police station.
All defendants were charged with torturing four detainees in January 2011. One of the victims, Mohammad Ghazzai Al Mutairi, 35, died of his injuries. The four were tortured in the desert and later at a police station, where they were accused of merchandising alcohol, a charge that was proved false.
