Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1109

Arrest. It is seizing a person's body, restricting his movement and depriving him of freedom of movement. - Detention. It is deprivation of liberty for a period of time. - Any restriction on personal liberty, whether arrest, detention or search. Impermissible except in a case of flagrante delicto, pursuant to an order of the investigator, or in one of the cases specified by law. Basis thereof. - The appellant's taking the victim to police headquarters on mere suspicion and detaining him. This constitutes physical interference, fulfilling the offence of arrest and detention outside the circumstances prescribed by law. It is the harmful act on the basis of which he was ordered to pay compensation, and entails the judgment's encompassing the elements of civil liability. The challenge alleging an error in the application of the law. Unfounded.