Edited sentence: A month before that, local journalists had been attacked by employees of the Ministry of Higher Education.In 2001 Hidaya Sultan al-Salem, then the editor of the feminist weekly al-Majalis, was assassinated for her criticism of tribal culture.Kuwaiti journalists are not only threatened with fines and imprisonment: In October 2009 Zayed al-Zaid, publisher of the news website www.cc well-known for his anti-corruption stance, was beaten by an unknown assailant as he left a local conference on transparency