KUWAIT: COURT COMMUTES IRAQI’S DEATH SENTENCE

May 26, 2014: Kuwait’s appeals court commuted the death sentence of an Iraqi fisherman who killed a coast guard to life imprisonment, according to the court verdict.
Taha Mahmud Sabhan was sentenced to death by the lower court in November 2012 for killing a Kuwaiti coast guard in a shootout in January the previous year.
The shooting took place after an Iraqi fishing boat with Sabhan and seven others aboard crossed into Kuwaiti waters and refused to stop, Kuwait’s interior ministry said.
Two of the seven were handed three-year sentences by the court and a third, who is a minor, was jailed for a year. The remaining four received life terms in absentia after they fled. But the appeals court on Monday (May 26) commuted all the life terms to three years in jail and upheld the other sentences. (Sources: omantribune.com, 27/05/2014)