ShareKUWAIT: The said the lawyers of jailed opposition leader Musallam Al-Barrak had informed the public prosecution that a visiting Human Rights Watch delegation wanted to meet Barrak, but the request was denied, said Awwad Al-Nasafi, Acting Secretary General of the Popular Action Bloc (PAB).
Court roundup
The administrative court yesterday ordered paying a group of ministry of commerce and industry employees special incentives for working in distant areas retroactively, effective as of April 1, 2012. Meanwhile, the permanent committee formed to prosecute ministers yesterday received a complaint referred from the public prosecutor's office on Jan 14 of a case filed by Khalifa Al-Jerri against the Finance Minister and Acting Oil Minister Anas Al-Saleh for not taking the needed measures towards an Audit Bureau's report on suspected squandering of KD 33 million on a touristic project. Separately, the court of appeal yesterday seconded a verdict by the first instance court indicting former lawmakers and activists for taking part in an unlicensed rally. In the meantime, the criminal court acquitted a citizen who had been accused by the state security department of joining a banned organization called the 'Pride Falcons' to fight in Syria. In another case, the court acquitted a blogger of state security charges of using slanderous phrases against Saudi Arabia on his Twitter account. Also yesterday, a court adjourned until Jan 24 hearing a case filed against a female blogger for slandering Islam and the Prophet (PBUH) on her Twitter account. Meanwhile, another court adjourned until March 2 hearing a case filed by Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammed against former MP Faisal Al-Mislem of posting slanderous remarks about the multimillion-dinar bank transfers case on his Twitter account.
Plastic surgery clinic sued
Lawyer Yousif Hussein Al-Taher yesterday filed a case against a plastic surgery clinic accusing it of committing medical errors that cost his client, a female citizen, all her hair and leaving her bald. Taher demanded examination of his client by forensic medicine to prove his allegations. Taher explained that his client had suffered from partial genetic baldness and that she saw the clinic's ad and visited it, where the doctor decided to subject her to a 3-hour hair transplant session on the very same day, costing her over KD 2,550, during which he was supposed to transplant natural hair. He added that despite following all the doctor's instructions, abscesses and pus started appearing in the transplanted hair follicles. "My client then developed acute granulomatous dermatitis followed by daily increasing hair fall," he explained.
Dust returns
Kuwait meteorological centers expect dusty weather in some areas on Sunday with cloudy skies and southeasterly winds that would later shift to northwesterly.
Municipality law
Municipal council member Nayef Al-Sour slammed what he described as sudden amendments to 14 out of 42 articles of the municipality law that were recently approved by the Cabinet. "The points we expected to be amended included municipality financial and administrative independence, which was ignored," he said, pointing out that the current law was 'excellent' and does not need to be 'crushed and blown away'. Sour also blasted the dissolution of some municipal departments and authorizing other governmental bodies without any municipal experience to do their jobs. In other news, Chairman of the state's structural scheme at the municipal council Ali Al-Mousa excluded the possibility of carrying out any economic development plans according to the current structural scheme because many of the concerned service ministries were not fully committed to what is in those plans.
By Meshaal Al-Enezi
