Handcuffs Should Be Removed When The Suspect Appears Before The Judge

In order to promote human values in the area of freedom, Kuwait's judiciary has issued instructions that prisoners should not be handcuffed or legcuffed when brought into the courtroom.

Many criminal court circuit judges during the trial sessions emphasized that the matter should not be repeated, and directed their messages to the prison guards that cuffing is prohibited.

A well-informed source told a local Arabic daily that the refusal to use cuffs on prisoners when they are in the courtrooms sends several messages, the most prominent of which is that the accused must feel completely free before the judge, following the principle of “the accused is innocent until proven guilty,” in addition to the fact that the accused must say everything he wants and feel free, even if he is a prisoner, when the cuffs are in place a kind of fear creeps into him and weakens his argument in expressing what he wants to say.

The source added, “This does not mean that a prisoner cannot be handcuffed when he is outside the courtroom. Only when the prisoner is brought before the judge does this principle apply.

 

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