Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 667

Permissible criticism is expressing an opinion on a matter or an act without impugning the person who issued the matter or performed the act. - The offence of publishing material that would attribute untrue statements or acts to a public official or a person entrusted with a public service. The legislature’s purpose in criminalizing it. Protecting them from the personal disparagement or offence to either of them that it entails. What it requires. - Statements and acts of a public official or a person entrusted with a public service that are subject to accountability, criticism and evaluation by members of society and journalists. Their nature: what actually emanates from him in the course of exercising his powers as a public official or performing public service. - The trial court’s statement that the article forming the subject of the accusation, published by the respondent, addressed a public issue and the interests of society, contained no offence to the Minister of the Interior or personal disparagement of him, and constituted permissible criticism. The Public Prosecution’s challenge in this regard. Factual argument. Impermissible before the Court of Cassation.