Socialist Leader
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YT: The North Sana’a Court of Appeals upheld the death sentence of a Muslim extremist convicted of assassinating prominent socialist politician Jarallah Omar and overturned the jail sentences of other five of his accomplices on Saturday.—
Ali was also convicted on charges stemming from his involvement in a plot that killed three Americans at a Southern Baptist missionary hospital in Jibla, two days after Omar’s assassination. He was also found guilty of forming a terror cell to buy weapons with the intention of killing other local intellectuals, writers and journalists, members of the al-Buhra religious sect and missionaries. —
Mohammed al-Mikhlafy, the advocate representing the late politician, was critical of the court’s decision to acquit the alleged accomplices in Omar’s killing.
“The court has now given the chance to the acquitted defendants to kill the remaining socialists and Westerners,” he said. “The court has dealt with the case as a personal criminal act, ignoring its political implications.” These are not just and fair verdicts; they are meant to satisfy the government’s intention to let this terrorist cell free-handed and give them a green light to target the socialist party.”—
In their meeting April 9, the Opposition Joint Meeting Coalition, including the socialists and Islah threatened to internationalize the inquiry into Omar’s assassination if the judiciary fails to investigate the murder properly, disclosing facts to the public. The socialists have always asked for interrogations of all the people whose names were mentioned during the investigations with the assassin, including prominent leaders of the Islah like Abdulmajeed al-Zindani, Mohammed al-Anisi and others, which the prosecution refused to carry out.
The socialist party, which is expected to officially comment on the verdict soon, have already accused some influential figures, including clerics, of cooperating with the terrorist group of Ali to assassin Omar and other socialist leaders and intellectuals. It demanded that the religious fatwa passed during the civil war of 1994 against the socialists should be abolished and that springs of extremism and terrorism should be dried.—
Human Rights Watch urged, in a letter addressed to President Ali Abdullah Saleh in August 2003, that government of Yemen should undertake “a full, independent, and impartial investigation” into the assassination of Omar. “There are serious and widespread allegations about possible involvement in this killing by government security officials and prominent Salafi political figures. These allegations need to be addressed in a transparent and serious manner, and dismissed or acted upon. We therefore call on you to authorize a special investigation, to be conducted in a thorough and impartial manner, into all aspects of this crime, and to make the results public,” the letter said.–
However, between twelve and thirty other persons have reportedly been detained in connection with the assassination and in connection with the reportedly related murders of three American medical missionaries two days later, on December 30.”—
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SANA’A - Seven professors who are also Members of Parliament threatened to present their resignations from Parliament due to what they called a desire of the government to issue a decision which would prevent them from teaching in universities.
Mansour Al-Zindani, a professor at Sana’a University and Member of Parliament, said, “We are in the Parliament according to the law of elections that granted the right of MPs to return to their previous work after ending their terms in Parliament.”
