Arrests campaigns to violators of residence law in Kuwait begin

The Kuwaiti Ministry of Interior began two security patrols today and setting up inspection barriers and campaigns to arrest violators of the residency law after the end of a grace period by the Ministry of Interior to legalize their status.

The public relations manager in the ministry, colonel Badr Saleh, said in a press conference that the ministry have set up lists containing names of the violators who did not take advantage of this period, and the intelligence agency began campaigns to arrest them in different regions.

Badr Saleh pointed out that the law imposese many sanctions on violators such as: imprisonment and deportation, adding that there are many of those violators that made use of this period to correct their residency status, while others left the country.