Kuwait Is Working to Improve Human Rights, U.S. Says
The United States, reacting to Amnesty International’s charges of widespread torture in Kuwait, said the human rights situation in the emirate has improved dramatically in recent weeks.
A State Department statement issued late Thursday said, “The situation by most accounts in Kuwait is very much improved over what existed some weeks ago.”
Amnesty International, a London-based human rights group, said in a report issued Thursday that hundreds of people have been arbitrarily arrested and scores tortured or executed since the restoration of the Kuwaiti government in late February.
“These violations are still continuing and appear to be largely unchecked,” the group said.
But the State Department said Kuwait’s crown prince, Sheik Saad al Abdullah al Sabah, has personally looked into many allegations of human rights abuses and overseen many changes for the better.
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