A criminal court on Saturday acquitted two former Guantanamo Bay prisoners of fighting on behalf of al-Qaeda or the Taliban.
Omar Rajab Amin and Abdullah Kamel al-Kundari denied any terror connections at the start of their trial. Their lawyers claimed the accused were in Afghanistan for charity works.
The two men were not in court Saturday, but one of their lawyers, Thikra al-Majdali, told the AP she expected them to be freed from custody by Sunday. The prosecution can appeal the ruling.
Amin, 41, and al-Kundari, 32, were freed from the American detention camp in September after spending some five years there. They were detained by authorities for questioning upon their return to Kuwait.
The prosecution claimed the pair had harmed Kuwait's political image by becoming members of Osama bin Laden's network and fought U.S. forces.
"We call on the United States to either give our four sons a fair trial in America or any other place in the world, or to hand them to Kuwait so that they can be ... given their legal right to defend themselves," said Khaled al-Odah, who heads a private group that lobbies for the release of the Kuwaiti prisoners.
