Kuwait | MENA Rights Group

Country legislation

Penal Code (AR)

Criminal Procedure Code (AR)

Nationality Law

Press and Publication Law

Cyber Crime Law (AR)

DNA Law (AR)

National Human Rights Institution Law (AR)

Prisons Act (AR)

Public Gatherings Law (AR)

Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism Law

E-publications Law (AR)

Cases

June 28, 2022

Kuwaiti student Salman al-Khaldy extradited to Kuwait following his arrest in Iraq

May 19, 2022

Kuwaiti national Mesaed Al Musaileem still under house arrest despite cancellation of Interpol Red Notice

March 18, 2021

Zuhair Al Mahmeed sentenced to 15 years in prison in Kuwait following an unfair trial

Advocacy

Passeport rouge biométrique apatride sur fond carte du monde pour la conception. Licensed under Shutterstock.

February 11, 2025

Kuwaiti government must end campaign of mass citizenship stripping and repeal recent amendments to Nationality Law

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July 16, 2020

NGOs: Freedom of expression and civic space continue to face severe restrictions in Kuwait

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Reports

Plane model on Saudi Arabia part of world map.

February 11, 2026

Enforced disappearances in the context of transnational repression in the MENA

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Kuwait

July 01, 2020

Joint submission ahead of Kuwait's review by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

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September 17, 2019

Joint briefing paper on the situation of human rights defenders in Kuwait

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HRC

July 26, 2019

Human rights in Kuwait: Restrictions on public liberties and systematic discrimination against the Bidoon

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Analysis

three policemen during the patrol of the city with riot uniform and batons

June 04, 2025

Silencing dissent in the name of fighting terrorism: Administrative measures as a tool of repression in the MENA

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HRC

July 24, 2020

Kuwait rejects Universal Periodic Review recommendations to lift restrictions on civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights

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Kuwait City

February 05, 2020

Kuwait’s human rights record examined by UN Member States

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