SAUDI TOP COURT REJECTS DEATH SENTENCE OF CANADIAN

the Saudi Arabian Supreme Court rejected the death sentence of a Canadian man and asked the lower court to revise its ruling, CBC News learned. Mohamed Kohail of Montreal was convicted of murder and sentenced on March 3, 2008, to a public beheading following a schoolyard brawl in 2007 in the city of Jeddah, an incident that left one dead. This latest decision means the lower court will now consider the top court's recommendations and possibly come up with a new ruling, a potentially important step for Kohail, Halton reported. Liberal MP Dan McTeague, who has been lobbying both the Saudi and Canadian governments on behalf of the family, said the decision puts Kohail in a legal "no-mans-land." He also stressed the man "is not out of the woods yet."