Two Lebanese sentenced to death in Kuwait over 2.4 kg of cannabis
Kuwait’s Criminal Court sentenced two Lebanese men to death for trafficking and using cannabis alongside psychoactive substances. Officers had seized 2 kg of marijuana and 400 g of hashish, plus non-cannabis drugs and packing equipment.
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Kuwait’s Criminal Court sentenced two Lebanese nationals to death for
trafficking in and using hashish and psychoactive substances.[1][2][3][4][5]The General
Department for Drug Control arrested the two Lebanese men after information and
investigations indicated they possessed narcotics and psychoactive substances
for trafficking and use.[1]Prosecutors charged the pair with possession for
trafficking and use and referred them to the Criminal Court, which imposed the
death sentences.[6]
Officers seizing the drugs found two kilogrammes of marijuana and 400 grammes of
hashish.[1][2][4][5]The same search also found half a kilogramme of “chemical”, 6,000
Lyrica capsules, three sensitive scales and nylon bags used to prepare and pack
drugs.[1][4][5]Only the marijuana and hashish, together 2.4 kg, are treated as
cannabis in this report, while the chemical and Lyrica are excluded as
non-cannabis substances.[6]
The verdicts were published on 1 November 2026, with a second newspaper dating
the ruling to the day before its 2 November edition.[6]The Lebanese case was
one of two separate drug cases decided together, the other a death sentence for
an Indian defendant over psychoactive substances concealed in 100 soaked A4
sheets in a shoe-carton parcel from abroad.[1][2][3][4][5]
Customs officials and anti-narcotics officers cooperated in apprehending the Indian defendant in the shoe-carton case.[5]
The articles give only publication dates of 1 and 2 November 2026; 1 November 2026 is used as the ruling date, with Al-Anba describing the ruling as issued “yesterday”.
No arrest location or separate dates for the arrests and seizure were published.
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The same articles also report a separate death sentence for an Indian defendant over psychoactive-soaked A4 sheets, a non-cannabis event excluded from the cannabis figures.
The Al-Anba article also reports a separate life sentence and fine for a woman over psychotropic substances, a different event left out here.
Whether the death sentences are final or subject to appeal was not reported.
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The Telugu page does not identify the narcotic solution on the 100 paper sheets in the Indian shoe-carton case as cannabis, so that case is left out of cannabis figures.
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Kuwait's Criminal Court sentenced a Bidun man to life imprisonment for trafficking hashish alongside psychotropic substances after officers caught him in a drug-control ambush. Prosecutors said he held cannabis resin for use and sale, plus amphetamine and pregabalin, and had consumed THC; the court upheld the arrest and search.
The Criminal Court sentenced a well-known lawyer and a Kuwaiti fugitive in London to life for trafficking hashish and psychotropic substances sent by air cargo. A young woman and another Kuwaiti received seven years each. The case showed that air cargo from Europe, not only Gulf sea routes, supplies the market.
Kuwait’s Criminal Court sentenced a Kuwaiti woman to fifteen years and a KD10,000 fine for cultivating, trafficking and using hashish after drug-control officers raided her home; a co-defendant was not sentenced for use alone.
Police broke up a hashish network holding 145 kilograms of resin and arrested a female suspect, then searched the cell of a non-Kuwaiti inmate who ran the gang from Central Prison. Another accomplice was at large outside Kuwait. The case showed that prison-based dealers can direct smuggling networks beyond the walls.