February 4, 2002	Monday	Ziqa’ad 20, 1422

KUWAIT CITY, Feb 3: A Kuwaiti man was sentenced to death on Sunday for shooting dead a woman magazine proprietor in apparent revenge for an “insulting” article she had published about his tribe.

The court heard how Haled Diab al-Azmi, a police lieutenant colonel, had killed Hedaya al-Sultan al-Salem on March 20 last year while her white Rolls-Royce car was waiting at a red traffic light near Kuwait City.

Al-Salem, a Kuwaiti national in her 60s, was the owner and editor- in-chief of al-Majales magazine. In the confession al-Azmi said he had killed al-Salem because she had insulted his al-Awazam tribe in a story she published in al-Majales in July 2000.

The July 2000 issue of the magazine carried a feature by al- Salem that described how women from the al-Awazam tribe used to perform erotic dances for money at weddings in Kuwait during the 1930s.—dpa