Kuwait executes 7 people for 1st time since 2017

ISTANBUL

Kuwait executed seven people on Wednesday, in the first executions in the Gulf country since 2017.

A statement by the Attorney General’s Office said the seven were convicted of premeditated murder.

Two women from Ethiopia and Kuwait were among those hanged, in addition to three Kuwaiti men, a Syrian national, and a Pakistani man.

Wednesday’s executions were the first in the oil-rich country since 2017.

*Ikram Imane Kouachi contributed to this report