Kuwait appeal court overturns terror conviction

The highest court of appeal in Kuwait today overturned the conviction of a former Guantánamo Bay prisoner, acquitting him of terror-related charges, his lawyer said.

Nasser al-Mutairi, who returned to Kuwait last year after almost three years in the US military prison in Cuba, had been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for joining a foreign military force without permission, harming Kuwait by serving the interest of a “foreign country” and undergoing illegal weapons training.