An appeal court commuted the death sentence of a Kuwaiti...

An appeal court commuted the death sentence of a Kuwaiti policeman who murdered a magazine editor for what he considered to be defamation of his tribe.
The court ruled that Khaled al-Azmi, who is in his 40s, should serve life imprisonment for the killing of Hidaya Sultan al-Salem in 2001.
The judge did not give a reason for his decision, which is final.
In 2002, another appeal court upheld the conviction of al-Azmi, who shot al-Salem with his government-issued gun as her car waited at a traffic light.
Al-Azmi had pleaded innocent. Prosecutors said his motive was to avenge what he regarded as an insult to his tribe in an article that al-Salem wrote in Al-Majales magazine. In the July 2000 article, al-Salem described dancers her family used to hire from the al-Awazem tribe which lived outside Kuwait City's walls when she was a child.
The dancers' movements were "all temptation and sexual suggestion," she wrote.
In a later issue of Al-Majales, Al-Salem wrote that tribe members had complained she had implied they were not real Kuwaitis because they lived outside the walls. She denied that implication.