Amnesty International has praised the Kuwaiti constitutional court’s overturning of a law that criminalised the “imitation of the opposite sex”, but emphasised more needs to be done for transgender rights in the country in a statement on Wednesday. Article 198 of the country’s Penal Code – deemed by the court on Wednesday as “unconstitutional” – threatened those found guilty with up to a year in prison and fines. Kuwait’s court accepted a legal challenge to the article last December, over two months after Maha al-Mutairi, a trans woman, was sentenced to two years in prison in the country and w…