Kuwait Asks Egyptian Authorities to Take Legal Action over Students Incident

The State of Kuwait called on Egyptian authorities to carry out investigations into the latest case of Kuwaiti students in Egypt’s northern city of Alexandria.

In an official statement, the Kuwaiti Ministry of Foreign Affairs asked the Egyptian authorities to pursue justice and accountability for all perpetrators of the incident and take necessary measures to deter such unacceptable individual behaviors that do not reflect fraternal relations between Kuwait and Egypt.

Also in this regard, the Kuwaiti Deputy Foreign Minister Ambassador Mansour Al-Otaibi communicated with Egyptian Ambassador in Kuwait Osama Shaltout, calling on Egyptian authorities to take official and legal action.

The Kuwaiti official briefed the Egyptian ambassador that the Foreign Ministry, in collaboration with the Kuwaiti Embassy in Cairo, would follow up on the required action to be taken by Egyptian authorities.

This came after the Egyptian policemen’s assault on a group of Kuwaiti students following a quarrel between the students themselves at a shopping mall in Alexandria on Saturday. Although the students were arrested, they were set free later in the day.