Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah instructed the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah to reexamine the DNA law in accordance with Kuwait’s constitutio... Read more
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Kuwait is about to become the first country to require all citizens, expatriates, residents and visitors to provide a DNA sample to the government database. The law, that is expected to go i... Read more
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Kuwait is about to become the first country to require all citizens, expatriates, residents and visitors to provide a DNA sample to the government database. The law was ratified in 2015, a w... Read more
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In Kuwait, citizenship is passed down by bloodline. With Kuwaits new DNA law, which is expected to go into effect this year, we might see an unprecedented mission of citizenship enforcement... Read more
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The UN Human Rights Committee, composed of 18 international experts, called on Kuwait to amend its compulsory DNA testing law, saying that it was disproportionate and violated the right to p... Read more
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Josiah Sutton and his friend Gregory Adams, 16 and 19 at the time, were accused for kidnapping and raping a 41 year old Houston woman although they both had alibis and didn’t match the profi... Read more
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The FBI’s Next Generation Identification System (NGIS) is a database of biometric information including fingerprints, eye scans, facial scans, and DNA samples. The database is often used to... Read more
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According to the annual progress report by the National Forensic Oversight and Ethics Board, also known as the DNA board, criminals and some police officers were refusing to have their DNA s... Read more
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With the new DNA testing law, which is about to go into effect later this year, Kuwait will become the first country worldwide to require all its citizens and temporary residents to provide... Read more
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