A Kuwait criminal court on Sunday sentenced an Iraqi fisherman to death for killing a Kuwaiti coast guard in a January 2011 shootout.<\/p>\n
Taha Mahmud Sabhan was handed the sentence for the death of Abdulrahman Al-Enezi after the Iraqi fishing vessel crossed into Kuwait’s territorial waters.<\/p>\n
In the same case, the court sentenced two other Iraqi fishermen to three years in jail each and a minor to one year. All four were captured after their boat capsized following the shootout.<\/p>\n
Four other fishermen, who managed to flee, were sentenced to life in jail in absentia.<\/p>\n
The sentences have to be reviewed by the court of appeals and Kuwait’s supreme court.<\/p>\n
Kuwait’s interior ministry said the clash took place when the Iraqi fishermen refused orders from the cost guards to stop after crossing into Kuwaiti territorial waters.<\/p>\n
The coast guards often seize Iraqi fishing boats and detain fishermen for illegal entry.<\/p>\n
According to court records, the eight Iraqi sailors were in possession of weapons while illegally sailing in a boat off Kuwait’s territorial waters. They engaged Kuwait’s Coast Guard officers in a gun battle after ignoring orders from the latter to stop for questioning, in the course of which the Kuwaiti officer died, while the Iraqi boat capsized.<\/p>\n
In another development, the Criminal Court sentenced an Egyptian man to death for killing his sister.<\/p>\n
2012 Arab Times Kuwait English Daily<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":26807,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[177],"tags":[305,2326],"region":[28],"source":[1540],"country":[],"state":[],"city":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/37078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/newss"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/37078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37078"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=37078"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=37078"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=37078"},{"taxonomy":"state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/state?post=37078"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=37078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}