Kuwait City: A Kuwaiti court has jailed three Arab supporters of Daesh, in a first for the country, newspapers reported on Friday.
The court sentenced a Kuwaiti to ten years in jail for urging support for the group and also for insulting Kuwait’s ruler, Shaikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, in public.
An Egyptian and a Jordanian were handed four-year terms for helping him distribute pro-Daesh leaflets, local media reports said, quoting Thursday’s ruling.
The verdicts can be appealed but the men are currently in prison.
It was the first such Kuwaiti court ruling against supporters of Daesh, the target of US-led air strikes in Syria and neighbouring Iraq.
Kuwaiti courts are examining two similar cases.
In September, police arrested several suspected Daesh members under the state’s commitment to the US-led coalition against the militants.
Dozens of Kuwaitis have fought alongside rebel groups in Syria battling President Bashar Al Assad’s regime, and a number have been killed in the conflict.
