
A new Kuwaiti law imposing mandatory DNA
tests on citizens and foreigners violates the
right to personal privacy and should be amended, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. Parliament endorsed the law in early July, less than a week after an Islamic State jihadist blew himself up in a Shiite mosque in
Kuwait killing 26 people and wounding more than 200 others. The new counter-terrorism law has made
Kuwait the only country to demand nationwide compulsory DNA testing, HRW said.
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