Kuwait: Cases of insulting and assaulting a public employee decreased by 92%

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Kuwaiti Minister of Justice Counselor Nasser Al-Sumait announced that cases of insulting and assaulting a public employee while performing his job decreased by 92% in the second year of implementing the legislative amendment that entered into force on September 15, 2024.

According to a recent statistic, the number of these cases decreased to only 93 cases, compared to 1,174 cases during the period prior to the implementation of the legislative amendment, extending from September 15, 2023, until September 14, 2024. The Minister of Justice explained in a statement that the statistics prepared by the Ministry of Interior include cases affecting all public employees, including security personnel, indicating that it decreased to 493 cases during the first year of implementing the amendment, from September 15, 2024, until September 14, 2024. September 2025, a decline of 58%. Al-Sumait pointed out that Decree Law No. 93 of 2024 came in line with the royal directive of His Highness the Emir, who stressed that “respecting security personnel is a matter of respecting the government system, and respecting them while performing their official duties, and I will never allow their prestige to be compromised.” In parallel, the penalty for insulting any public employee while performing his job or because of it is up to imprisonment for a period not exceeding 3 months. And a fine ranging from 100 to 300 dinars, or one of these two penalties. In the event of insulting judges, members of the Public Prosecution, police, army, or national guard, the penalty amounts to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year, and a fine ranging from 300 to 1,000 dinars, or one of these two penalties. As for assaulting or resisting any public employee by force or violence, the penalty amounts to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year, and a fine ranging from 5years, and a fine ranging from 1,000 to 5,000 dinars, or one of these two penalties, if an assault occurs on a policeman or a member of the army or the National Guard while dispersing a gathering, demonstration, or gathering, with the intention of resisting him or disrupting his work.