More Than 3,000 Orders For Travel Ban Were Issued In The Last 5 Months Of This Year

More than 3,000 orders for travel ban were issued in the last five months of this year, and only 1,650 of them have been lifted, as per official statistics of Ministry of Justice, reports Al-Rai daily.

There have been an increasing number of complaints from citizens and expatriates on whom travel ban has been imposed, especially over simple financial cases that do not exceed KD 1 or even KD 0.500 in some instances. Some of them are government fees which are not intentionally ignored, as many are not aware of them because they were not notified about them or about the travel ban that was imposed on them.

Various lawyers have urged the need to review the travel ban, especially since the law, here in Kuwait, does not differentiate between a travel ban over thousands of dinars and that over a few dinars. They suggested the travel ban should not be imposed on those with financial dues less than KD 300.

They insisted that the law should be reviewed particularly the aspect of notification, because the ban restricts freedom without even notifying the affected person.

SOURCE : ARABTIMES

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