Sanaa: death penalty for five Yemenis over Limburg case

The attorney general in Sanaa yesterday called for the death penalty for five Yemenis who have been tried over the issue of blowing up the "Limburg" oil tanker in 2002; the five were sentenced by the elementary court to 10 year imprisonment. This was expressed during the opening session of the appeal raised by the 15 persons accused of carrying out terrorist acts.

The representative of the Attorney General called for death penalty for Omar Saeed Hassan Jarulla, Fawizi Yahya al-Hababi, Muhammad Saeed al-Ammari, Fawzi al-Wajih and Ali Salem al-Madari "over taking part in an action that resulted in killing one member of the team of the tanker."

On the other hand, Yemeni governmental sources said that Sanaa proposed a warrant of protest to Riyadh over "practices hostile to Yemen" by opposition Yemeni political figures in Saudi Arabia. The sources said that memorandum included a complaint over practices by members of Beit al Hamid Eddine ( the former royal regime) and opposition figures, most of them carry the Saudi nationality.