Waheed Mahmoud al-Rifaei Hassan, an Egyptian worker for a Kuwaiti motor repair shop who was hospitalized after being brutally beaten by a Kuwaiti customer on Tuesday for allegedly informing him that the staff were on a break, has spoken out on Thursday about his ordeal. The video elicited the Egyptian public to call for an intervention from Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and the Egyptian Embassy in Kuwait. Nevertheless, Kuwaiti authorities responded by arresting one of the suspected culprits, while they search for the second man seen in the video, and Rizk praised the Kuwaiti authorities’ quick response in dealing with the incident. A delegation of Egyptian editors visited Hassan on Wednesday to check on his health. Meanwhile, the Minister of Immigration and Egyptian Expatriates’ Affairs, Nabila Makram, said she is visiting Kuwait on Thursday to check on Hassan’s condition.

Source: Egypt Independent December 07, 2017 12:56 UTC