Dubai: A Kuwaiti criminal court has sentenced a Bangladeshi expatriate to death for murdering his friend after the victim posted photographs of the killer's wife on Facebook and refused to remove them, according to the Public Prosecution.

The Criminal Court handed down the death sentence on Tuesday after convicting the man of premeditated murder in a case triggered by a dispute over photographs published on social media.

Prosecutors said the defendant deliberately planned the killing after his friend shared private photographs of his wife on Facebook and ignored repeated requests to delete them.

According to the prosecution, the defendant armed himself with a knife and lay in wait for the victim outside a location at their workplace, having established that he was inside.

When the victim emerged, the defendant attacked him, stabbing him repeatedly in the head and body.…