Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 397

The legislature's making the rule in Article 116 of the Penal Code unrestricted so as to punish anyone who uses force, violence, or threats against a public official whenever his purpose in the assault or threat is to compel the official to perform an unlawful act or refrain from an act among his official duties. The material element of this offence. Is established by any measure of acts of force or threat, whatever its degree, whether or not any of them leaves an effect. The judgment's adherence to this view. The challenge thereto in this regard. Unfounded. An example.