This document reports the wide-spread human rights abuses in the Kuwait justice system following the first Iraq war, including the difficulties which those detained unfairly face in gaining recognition from the UNHCR.
Since the end of the Iraqi occupation in February 1991, Kuwait has embarked on a series of political and human rights reforms. Parliament has been reconstituted, a committee has been established to look into complaints of human rights violations, and steps have been taken towards the ratification of several international human rights treaties. However, the … متابعة قراءة Kuwait: five years of impunity: human rights concerns since the withdrawal of Iraqi forces