Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
06KUWAIT3053
2006-07-31 10:24:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Kuwait
Cable title:
PROSECUTORS REQUEST SUPREME COURT HEARING ON
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UNCLAS KUWAIT 003053
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE FOR NEA/ARP AND S/WCI
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PTER PGOV PHUM PREL KU TERRORISM
SUBJECT: PROSECUTORS REQUEST SUPREME COURT HEARING ON
GUANTANAMO DETAINEES
REF: KUWAIT 3009
Kuwait's Public Prosecution office announced July 29 that it
would appeal the Court of Appeals' decision to uphold the
lower court's acquittal of the five Guantanamo detainees
repatriated in November 2005. Four of the five, Abdulaziz
Sayer Al Owain Al Shimmari, Mohammed Funaitel Sahli
Al-Dihani, Saad Maadi Saad Al Azmi, Abdullah Saleh Ali
Al-Ajmi, were released after the Court of First Instance's
May 21 ruling while the fifth, Adil Zamil Abdulmohsen Al
Zamil, was remanded to prison to serve out a one-year
sentence from a 2000 assault case. A Ministry of Foreign
Affairs official confirmed that the travel ban previously
imposed on the five will remain in effect until a final
verdict is announced, likely sometime in September.
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