Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1908

The time limit for appeal is twenty days from the date of pronouncement of the judgment rendered in the presence of the accused or issued on opposition. Article 201, Criminal Procedures, unless there is force majeure or an excuse on the appellant's part that prevented filing within the time limit. - Restriction of the accused's liberty through his presence in prison. Does not constitute an excuse preventing him from filing an appeal within the time limit. So long as the prison system enables him to do so. Unless there is evidence of something preventing this. - The prison administration's role is confined to forwarding the appeal petition filed by the imprisoned accused to the competent authority, and it is not required to file the appeal on behalf of the imprisoned accused if he remains silent as to expressing that wish. - The absence from the papers of anything indicating that the administration of the prison in which the appellant was an inmate prevented him from filing an appeal within the time limit. Its effect. Non-acceptance of his excuse concerning challenging by appeal within the time limit.