One Saudi detainee committed suicide because Yemen refused him asylum
Saudi Arabia-Yemen, Local, 11/24/2003

The Yemeni opposition announced the death of a Saudi citizen inside a Yemeni detention center, when he committed suicide, because the Yemeni authorities refused to give him and three of his colleagues the right to political asylum.

The Yemeni coalition party for reforms quoted a Yemeni security source as saying that one Saudi citizen was among four who asked for political asylum to Yemen, died while in detention.

The said Saudi citizen sneaked to Yemen through the border between the two states together with other three Saudis. As they were detained at the borders, three of them asked for political asylum in Yemen.

The Yemeni security source said that the "four Saudis entered Yemen illegally (smuggled), and asked for the right to political asylum.

The source added that the Yemeni border authorities, after consultations with the central authorities, detained the four men, and started investigations with them. No indication is made on the nature of the investigation.

According to the Yemeni reform group, two of the four attempted suicide, and this resulted in the death of Muhammad al-Sharif al-Hosni. An attempt to rescue him took place by transporting him to the Saudi hospital on the border province of Hejja ( 150 Km to the north of Sanaa ). His friend Muhammad Jubran al-Malki was rescued.

It stressed that the Yemeni authorities handed over the three men to the Saudi embassy in Sanaa, including al- Malki, after he was rescued from the suicide attempt.

Recently, Yemen and Saudi Arabia enhanced their cooperation in the security field, and frequently announced the exchange of wanted suspects, according to an agreement between them in the framework of fighting what is called terrorism.

The border demarcation agreement between the two states calls for preventing opposition parties from "political activity agiaing each of the other country." The two states also exchanged the delivery and receive of scores of suspects wanted to be linked to al-Qaida organization.

Riyadh handed over to Sanaa two suspects in the attack that targeted October the French oil tanker Limburg in the year 2002.

On September 17, Sanaa handed over the authorities in Riyadh, the Saudi Bander al-Ghamidi who is accused of blowing up a residential complex in Riyadh that claimed the lives of 35 persons including westerners in May of this year.

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