Kuwati royalty sentenced to death

[Rach3]

KUWAIT CITY - A court has convicted a member of Kuwait's ruling family for drug trafficking and it condemned him to death, according to a ruling obtained Monday.

...The crimes of Sheik Talal Nasser Al Sabah "threatened society ... especially young people," who bought hashish and cocaine from him, Judge Humoud al-Mutawah said in his verdict Sunday.

Sheik Talal had "willingly walked the path of evil" and "deserved no mercy," al-Mutawah said.

It was not immediately clear how closely related Sheik Talal is to the head of the ruling family, which has hundreds of members.

Prominent criminal lawyer Najib al-Wugayyan hailed the verdict and sentence. "This is a magnificent indication to all that nobody is above the law," he said.

And if as if that weren't harsh enough...

In addition to the death sentence, the court fined Sheik Talal $35,000 for drug trafficking.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070115/ap_on_re_mi_ea/kuwait_ruling_family

 

[Anttech]

Hmmm, I will never understand the Arabs, when it comes to these sort of things. Dealing coke and Hashish perhaps is bad, in some societies but 'the path of evil', to the extent he deserves to die.

However he wasnt messing around:

And for laundering about $3 million from the trafficking, the court sentenced him to seven years' imprisonment and ordered him to pay an identical sum as a fine.

Why on Earth would the ruling class of a Oil rich gulf state need to get all *gangster with it* to earn some extra doe...

 

[Gokul43201]

This is nothing. People get the DP in Malayasia for possession of weed (possession of over half a pound of weed is automatically considered trafficking, unless the defendant can prove otherwise ...and the punishment for trafficking is execution).

But punishment aside, it's good to see that royalty gets the same deal as the rest of the people. Silver lining!