---
title: "Kuwait Announces Mandatory DNA Database for Its Citizens"
description: "The Kuwaiti legislature has now implemented a law that calls for a mandatory DNA testing on every single Kuwaiti citizen including its foreign residents."
date: "2015-07-12"
modified: "2015-08-13"
authors:
  - name: "Mark Parker"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/parkerm"
url: "https://futurism.com/kuwait-announces-mandatory-dna-database-for-its-citizens"
categories:
  - "DNA"
  - "Genetics"
  - "Health & Medicine"
tags:
  - "medical"
---

# Kuwait Announces Mandatory DNA Database for Its Citizens

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/dna1.jpg>)

- The Kuwaiti legislature had had enough of the bloodshed of innocent victims as the Islamic state (IS) terrorist group claimed the responsibility for the gruesome June 26 mosque bombing.
- The law states that security agencies must help the government to create a database on all 1.3 million Kuwaiti citizens and 2.9 million foreign residents in order to make faster arrests when it comes to criminal cases.
- It is also stated that for those who refuse to give out their sample will be sent to jail for a year. It will also come with a fine of $33,000 or 29, 700 euros. If a citizen is proven guilty of faking their sample, they are entitled to be imprisoned for seven years.