Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 37

Assessment of whether the elements of the offence of attempting, without government permission, to undertake a hostile act against a foreign state are present. A matter of fact. The condition for this. - The material element of the offence. Its nature. - The stages preceding commission of the offence: the stages of resolve and preparatory acts. - No punishment for merely contemplating commission of an offence, resolving to do so, or preparing preparatory acts for its commission. - The challenged judgment’s acquittal of the respondent on the basis that he voluntarily and of his own free choice desisted from completing the attempted offence, and its deeming it an unpunishable preparatory act, and the extension of this to the activity of the remaining respondents as accomplices, culminating in their acquittal. No contradiction