Kuwait Overturns Death Sentence in Mosque Attack for Daesh Cell Leader

A Kuwaiti appeals court overturned the capital sentence to a local leader of the Islamic State group’s cell, involved in a June terror attack on the Shiite mosque, local media reported, citing a court’s ruling.

DUBAI (Sputnik) – On June 26, a suicide bomber from Saudi Arabia blew himself up near Al-Imam Al-Sadeq mosque in Kuwait City, killing at least 27 people and wounding about 300. ISIL (IS, or Daesh in Arabic) militant group, which denounces Shiites as heretics and non-Muslims, claimed responsibility for the deadly attack.

According to the court’s decision circulating in the media, the death sentence was upheld only in respect to one of the defendants, whereas the Kuwaiti Daesh leader was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

The daughter and the driver of the Daesh cell’s chief have been released from the custody, Kuwaiti al-Qabas newspaper said.

The Court of Appeal has also stopped the legal proceedings against the five other defendants, who had been in absentia sentenced to death in this case.