Yemen: al- Mihdar shot to death

The Yemeni authorities, the province of Abyan ( North east Aden) on Sunday evening carried out death penalty by gun fire in Zein al-Abidin Abu Baker al-Mihdar ( Abu al-Hassan), the leader of " the Islamic Abyan Aden army,." The execution process, was attended by representatives for the attorney general, and the supreme court and the cassation court in the province.

The implementation of the death penalty came after the supreme court approved the sentence released by Abyan preliminary court which found al-Mihdar and three of his friends guilty in kidnapping 16 foreign tourists and killing four of them during the process of liberating them last year.

This death penalty sentence was also approved by the court of cassation and was ratified by the Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Saturday.

The Yemeni President also ratified imprisonment sentences of three of followers of the "Aden army" leader including a Tunisian called Abu Hireira.