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Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Acquitted of Insulting Judiciary

Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah has been fully acquitted by Kuwait’s Supreme Court on charges of insulting the judiciary. The ANOC President had been sentenced to six months in prison in December 2015 by a lower court for comments he had made in a […]

July 28, 2016 / International, IOC, Olympics
Kuwait Ponders Dissolution of Sports Federations and Olympic Committee

Kuwait’s government is reportedly planning to dissolve every one of its national sports federations, including its National Olympic Committee, after the Court of Arbitration for Sport [CAS] upheld a FIFA decision to ban the Kuwait Football Association over government interference. Last September FIFA […]

June 23, 2016 / FIFA, International, IOC, Olympics

Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Acquitted of Insulting Judiciary