Tribal mediation succeeded in releasing a judge in Taiz Governorate, hours after he was kidnapped by an armed gang affiliated with the Islah Party militia in Taiz.

Informed sources said: “An armed gang led by the so-called Osama Al-Qardai kidnapped Judge Abdul Rahman Al-Humairi on Saturday evening, and took him to an unknown destination for several hours before mediation efforts succeeded in returning him to his home after midnight.”

A statement issued by the General Forum of the People of Sharab Al-Runa in Taiz Governorate expressed its condemnation of this crime, which harms Taiz Governorate and its struggle, liberation, republican and institutional project, according to the statement.

This crime occurred after the judicial authority succeeded in implementing the first death sentence early last week since the beginning of the war, and in light of the efforts made by the executive and judicial authority

The forum called for consolidating the prestige of the state, establishing security and stability in it, and fighting these gangs that are lurking in Taiz and clearly serving the Iranian Houthi gang..

During the past years, armed gangs, most of whose members belong to security and military units affiliated with the Taiz axis, caused security chaos and kidnapped many judges and cadres of the judicial institution in Taiz Governorate.