Yemen releases hundreds of Houthi supporters
Yemen, Politics, 3/4/2006

The Yemeni authorities on Friday released hundreds of the supporters of Sheikh Bader Eddine al-Houthi who is accused of leading an armed rebellion in Sadaah governorate north of Yemen after the killing of his son Hussein al-Houthi.

A Yemeni security source said that some 627 persons were released according to a presidential pardoning issued by President Ali Abdullah Saleh, and that there are other 36 detainees under trial who might be also pardoned.

These measures come in the course of a plan that aims at closing the file of tension in Sadah and compensating persons who were damaged from the fighting between the Yemeni forces and Houthi supporters.

A group of parliamentarians held during the past weeks talks with Houthi supporters in order to encourage them to stop the fighting according to the pardon proposed by the president in September 2005.

Hundreds were killed from the government and armed men forces in Sadah during the two past years in the clashes in which Hussein al-Houthi was killed in September 2004 after he had led a large scale rebellion that lasted for 80 days in Sadah area in the Summer of that year. Sanaa accused the Yemeni clergy and his son of seeking to topple the government and urging to launch attacks against American interests.

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