KUWAIT FOUR SPARED DEATH, GIVEN LIFE SENTENCE

Kuwait’s highest court commuted the 2005 death sentences passed on four militants suspected of links to Al Qaeda to life imprisonment. An appeals court had confirmed the death sentences in 2006. The court named the four as Mohamed Saad Ali bin Noun, Abdullah Saeed Habib al-Shimmari, Saleh Abdallah Rabia Khalaf and Mohamed Issa Nawaf al-Shimmari.  They were convicted of charges including belonging to an “extremist” group, calling for attacks on state facilities, and trying to kill Kuwaiti security officers as well as members of “friendly forces” in the emirate.