Category: Foreign

A politician in Kuwaiti has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment on Monday for failing to tell his wife he divorced her and continuing to have sexual relations with her, her lawyer said. Waleed al-Tabtabai, an Islamist who is currently outside Kuwait, already faces a 42-month jail term handed down in July in another case for storming parliament and assaulting police. The appeals court on Monday upheld a 2018 verdict finding him guilty of adultery, said the lawyer, Naser al-Otaibi, adding the ruling was not political. “My client received justice…

A 50-year-old man, who raped his own daughter on his wedding night “because he thought she was his wife” has been sentenced to two years and six months imprisonment. The man, from Denmark, was hosting his wedding reception at a country estate when his 20-year-old daughter, who was already intoxicated passed out in the bridal suite. During the party in April 2018, the daughter became “very intoxicated” and family members realised she would not be able to get to the nearby hotel where she was meant to be staying, reports Metro UK.…

The government of Rwanda has banned skin bleaching creams and soaps in order to curb skin bleaching among its citizens. The Rwandan government gave directives to officials across the country to enforce that the ban is adhered to. According to a report by CNN, the East African country is leading a campaign against skin bleaching and substandard cosmetics, particularly products that include hydroquinone. A spokesman from the Rwanda Standards Board said, “It is been implemented by the Ministry of Health and the Rwanda Food and Drug Authority and the Rwanda…

After catching them red handed in her home, a South African woman forced her husband’s lover to clean the house and wash bed sheets . According to South Africa’s Daily Sun, the wife forced the girlfriend to confess on camera and told her she had to compensate her by doing housework. First, she was given a cloth and bucket and told to scrub the floor. Then she was told to wash the bedsheets on which she had slept with the woman’s husband. “You want to be the woman of this house?…

A new regulation that took effect in Saudia Arabia says women will now be served their divorce notice by courts via text message. Officials said the measure which is approved by the Justice Ministry is aimed at curbing seemingly rampant cases of men secretly ending marriages without informing their wives. “Women will be notified of any changes to their marital status via text message,” the justice ministry said in a statement carried by state-run Al-Ekhbariya news channel and other local media. “Women in the kingdom will be able to view documents…