Court clears Guantánamo Kuwaiti
A Kuwait court has cleared one of its citizens recently held at the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Nasser Najr al-Mutairi was charged with committing an act of aggression against a foreign nation among others. On Wednesday the defendants' lawyer, Mubarak al-Shimmari, said: "The criminal court found Nasser Najr al-Mutairi innocent of all the charges against him because of a lack of evidence."
The public prosecution accused him of fighting against US forces in Afghanistan under the former government, for which he faced a minimum of three years in jail. Mutairi, the first Kuwaiti to be returned to his country from the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba, said he went to Afghanistan as a relief worker and does not know how to use arms.
Bob Pitt