Tag: Yemeni

SANAA - Yemen on Monday sentenced to death a Yemeni teenager convicted of killing a Frenchman, and handed down a 10-year jail sentence in absentia on US-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaqi whom it accuses of motivating the crime. A Sanaa criminal court specialised in terrorism passed the death sentence on Hisham Mohammed Assem after convicting him of killing French energy contractor Jacques Spagnolo near Sanaa last October. "I reject the verdict and will appeal," 19-year-old Assem, wearing a

ADEN - A court in Yemen's southeastern city of Mukalla sentenced 13 Somalis each to 12 years in jail on Saturday after convicting them of piracy, a judicial source said.
The men, whose trial had started in October last year, were found guilty of seizing two Yemeni boats in the Gulf of Aden to use as mother ships from which to launch attacks on merchant vessels.
Yemen's navy said in May it nabbed the 13 Somali pirates and liberated a fishing boat and its crew four days after

ADEN - Al Qaeda militants killed nine soldiers in an ambush on a military convoy in the restive southern province of Abyan on Friday, Yemeni officials said.
"We were hit today in an Al Qaeda ambush which resulted in the killing of five soldiers and two others being wounded," a security official who requested anonymity told AFP.
But another security official later revised the death toll to nine soldiers.
Loder health department chief Mostafa Ahmed confirmed to AFP that