Kuwait urged to free cross-dressers from jail

[Shana A]

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Kuwait urged to free cross-dressers from jail

DUBAI (AFP) — Human Rights Watch urged the Kuwaiti authorities on Friday to release from prison 14 men jailed in recent months for having dressed as women in public.

Kuwait "should immediately release more than a dozen persons jailed under Kuwait's new dress-code law" since mid-December, the New York-based rights HRW said in a statement received by AFP.