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JAMADA ALAWWAL 19, 1439 AH MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2018 Max 23º 32 Pages Min 05º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 17449 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Amnesty provides a way No end in sight as Lebanon Del Toro wins top DGA Kane saves Spurs in 4 out for victims of abuse 11 garbage mountains grow 30 prize for ‘Shape of Water’ 16 late drama at Liverpool---- 3,600 benefit from amnesty, 10,000 more have applied MoI assures departing violators won’t be blacklisted, warns holdouts By Nawara Fattahova not able to do so due to the high amount of fines they would have had to pay. The amnesty KUWAIT: During the first six days of the includes those on all types of visas, including appointed a new judge to preside over amnesty, 3,632 residency violators have left domestic and visit visas,” Twalah added. Top court looks the proceedings and decided to begin the country or legalized their status. Interior According to Twalah, some people may have deliberations from today. The court ministry statistics show that the total number the wrong information. “Some violators believe may decide to free all the jailed defen- of residency violators before the amnesty that after they leave during the amnesty, they into Assembly dants pending the result of the trial. was over 125,500, and after the amnesty won’t be able to return as they will be blacklist- The activists are charged with went into effect on Jan 29, the figure dropped ed, but this is not true, as they are not being storming case storming the Assembly in Nov 2011. to around 122,000 (till Saturday). deported. But those who don’t benefit from this The criminal court had acquitted all of The interior ministry expects more violators decision will be arrested after the amnesty and them, saying they had no criminal will benefit from the amnesty. “We expect that will be deported and blacklisted. Some people after recusal intent when they entered the house. the number will rise during the coming period are spreading rumors that after the amnesty, By B Izzak But the appeals court handed 67 of as over 10,000 violators have already applied, nothing will change and the situation may even them harsh jail terms - from one to but are awaiting procedures including finger- get calmer. But I’m warning violators that these KUWAIT: The court of cassation will nine years - including current and for- printing, ticket reservations, etc,” Col Hamad are rumors, and the ministry will be very strict today start looking into the case of 70 mer MPs. They include MPs Jamaan Rasheed Al-Twalah, General Director of the in deporting any violator arrested after the opposition activists including sitting Al-Harbash and Waleed Al-Tabtabaei, Central Department for Residency and Entry amnesty expires,” stressed Twalah. MPs accused of storming the National who have been held at the central and Exit Procedures, told Kuwait Times. Violators who were arrested before the Assembly, after it delayed the start of prison for the past two months. Others The interior minister issued the amnesty amnesty and sent to the deportation prison are procedures as the head of the judges’ include leading opposition figure and decision seven years after the last full amnesty not forcibly deported to certain countries. Col Hamad Rasheed Al-Twalah panel recused himself. The court was former MP Musallam Al-Barrak and for humanitarian reasons. “Violators still have a Also, they cannot remain there for over two supposed to start hearing the case well-known opposition figures. chance to either legalize their status after pay- months. These violators can choose other the deportation prison and visit the prison yesterday, but Judge Ahmad Al-Ajeel The public prosecution in its argu- ing the fines or leave the country before the countries to be deported to after negotiating weekly to meet prisoners who need their help. stepped down from presiding over the ments to the cassation court acknowl- 22nd of this month, with the possibility of with representatives of the UN Refugee They may arrange for them to leave to other panel because one of the defense edged that the appeals court ruling returning to Kuwait in the future. This amnesty Agency (UNHCR) if they feel their home coun- countries, as the case was of some Syrian pris- lawyers is his relative. The panel then Continued on Page 11 is a great relief for those who wanted to leave try is dangerous for them. Representatives of oners,” he pointed out. the country or legalize their status, but were UNHCR and the Red Cross have an office at Continued on Page 11 shove himself on Israel ‘legalizes’ Thurman details me. He tried to expose himself. He did all kinds of rogue settlement Weinstein attack unpleasant LOS ANGELES: Actress Uma things,” she said. JERUSALEM: Israel’s cabinet voted yester- Thurman, who is indelibly linked to Thurman said day to formally authorize a rogue West Bank Harvey Weinstein’s Miramax studio she took a friend settlement in response to last month’s murder thanks to her iconic roles in “Pulp with her to con- of a rabbi who lived there, officials said, in a Fiction” and “Kill Bill”, has broken her front Weinstein rare move likely to spark an international out- silence about the disgraced Hollywood not long after, but cry. The vote came as European nations mogul, accusing him of attacking her his assistants voiced growing concern over settlement and threatening her career. Dozens of pressured her to Uma Thurman expansion in the occupied Palestinian territo- Hollywood women - including Ashley meet him alone. ry, but with US President Donald Trump Judd, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Thurman said she largely refraining from such criticism, which Beckinsale and Salma Hayek - have told Weinstein: “If many Israelis see as a green light. accused Weinstein of acts ranging you do what you Israeli authorities have advanced plans for from sexual harassment to rape. did to me to other thousands of new settlement homes in recent The scandal touched off a deluge of people you will months, although cabinet votes to authorize a allegations against powerful men in lose your career, pre-existing outpost are relatively rare. GAZA CITY: Palestinian schoolchildren shout slogans and hold placards during a protest yes- entertainment, politics and the media, your reputation Yesterday’s vote to authorize the Havat Gilad terday against the difficult economic situation and the US decision to withhold funds ear- forcing many industries to re-examine and your family, I outpost was unanimous, an official familiar marked for the UN relief agency for Palestinian refugees. — AFP workplace policies. Thurman, 47, told promise you.” with the proceedings said on condition of The New York Times in an interview Weinstein told the anonymity. Speaking at the start of the meet- authorization would proceed, as parts of the Shevach’s killing, 22-year-old Ahmed Jarrar. published Saturday of two incidents in ing, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said outpost may have to be moved elsewhere if The manhunt continued on Saturday with a paper “she very Harvey Weinstein London that took place after the well could have “the government will today regularize the sta- found to have been built on private raid on the West Bank village of Burqin, near release of 1994’s Oscar-winning “Pulp said this.” Thurman’s friend Ilona tus of Havat Gilad to allow the continuance of Palestinian land. Nablus, sparking clashes during which sol- Fiction”. They followed an episode in Herman, Robert De Niro’s long-time normal life there”. Rabbi Raziel Shevach was shot dead near diers shot dead a teenager identified by the Paris during which Thurman said makeup artist, recalled in the Times that The official cabinet agenda said the motion Havat Gilad, where he lived, on Jan 9. The fol- Palestinian health ministry as Ahmad Abu Weinstein, dressed in a bathrobe, led the actress came out of that meeting would designate the 15-year-old outpost as a lowing week, Israeli troops searching for his Obeid, 19. “Yesterday our forces were again her into a steam room during a meet- “very disheveled and so upset”. Herman “new community” which will have the neces- attackers shot dead what they described as a in action in an effort to apprehend the last of ing about a script. In the first “attack”, said Thurman told her that Weinstein sary building permits and a state budget. The Palestinian suspect in the city of Jenin in the the assassins and their accomplices in the in Weinstein’s suite at London’s Savoy had threatened to end her career. agenda said about 40 families live in the out- northern West Bank, about 35 km north of murder of Rabbi Shevach,” Netanyahu told Hotel, “he pushed me down. He tried to Continued on Page 11 post, but envisages its enlargement. Israeli Havat Gilad. However, they did not catch the cabinet ministers and media. media, however, said it was unclear how the man suspected of being responsible for Continued on Page 11 team could help improve ties. “I am excited,” said player squad. The game day roster will continue Cheers, protests Park Cheol-hyun, who came to watch the game to be 22 and the team has to include at least three with his wife and son. “Even though the nuclear North Koreans. The North will also send athletes issue may not be resolved immediately, it will be to take part in figure skating, short track speed greet joint Korea good for the longer term if the two Koreas get skating, cross-country and Alpine skiing at the closer.