A Yemeni court in the Hadhramaut Governorate, eastern Yemen, sentenced four people accused of kidnapping aid workers for the Doctors Without Borders organization to death.
The Criminal Court of First Instance specializing in terrorism and state security cases in the Hadhramaut Governorate convicted Muhammad Ali, Aghla Al-Harithi, and Ali Ghalib. Al-Shaafah Al-Salhi and Abdul-Rahman Ali Amer Al-Salhi Shehab Abdullah Ali Al-Salhi in the kidnapping incident attributed to them, and sentenced
their to be punished with death by execution, by beating with a sword or shooting to death.
The court also convicted the accused Muhammad Saleh Nasser Tarik for the incident of using a forged document, and decided to punish him The period he spent in pretrial detention was sufficient.
The court ruled that five other defendants in the same case were acquitted of the charges attributed to them in the indictment.
The convicts had intercepted, in March last year, a car carrying two foreign employees working for an organization “ Doctors Without Borders International, as they were passing on the road linking the Al-Abr and Al-Khasha’a regions, west of Hadramaut Governorate, and took them to an unknown destination.
Later the same year, security forces were able to liberate them, 6 months after they were kidnapped, following an operation An extensive investigation led to the arrest of a number of members of the gang that carried out the kidnapping