KUWAIT CITY - Kuwait on Wednesday freed 472 prisoners after Emir Shaikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah pardoned them on the occasion of the emirateÂ’s national and liberation days, which fell on February 25 and 26. Liberation day on February 26 marked 16 years since a US-led multinational coalition liberated the emirate after seven months of Iraqi occupation.
The pardon, which also marked the emirÂ’s first year in power, stipulated reducing the jail terms of 1,333 other prisoners, the interior ministry said. Of those released, 300 were foreigners and the rest Kuwaiti citizens. They included 64 women, most of them expatriates. |