Spies Trial Closed
Journalists denied access to trial of national spies
SANA’A, Oct 11 (Saba) – In a hearing to which journalists and businessmen were denied access, the Specialized Penal Court started on Saturday the trial of three nationals convicted of spying for foreign countries.
The state-run 26sep.net reported the three were identified as Abdul Karim Ali Abdul Karim al-Alaji, 33, Hani Ahmed Deen Muhammad, 31, Skandar Abdullah Yousuf Abdu, 57.
They were arrested in Aden and referred to the judicial authorities under convictions of spying for foreign states through disclosing information on the national defense systems and documents containing information on the country’s political, economic and security conditions.
The authorities claim the men acts harmed Yemen’s position.
Now the trial has been adjourned for next Saturday.
In February, the court sentenced two locals to death after they were found guilty of spying for an Arab state.
Hamad Ali Al-Dhahouk and Abdulaziz Al-Hatbani were convicted of spying for Egypt by supplying information to Egyptian diplomats in Sana’a.
The information Dhahouk gave to the Egyptian embassy was that was that the Yemeni government knew about a terror plot targeting tourists in Egypt. He was charged with revealing state secrets. Its a bizarre case. Two guys go to the Egyptian embassy with information on a terror plot orchestrated by Kuwait and Saudi Arabia with the knowledge of Yemeni authorities and ask for money. Egypt tells Yemen’s National Security. The guys, one of whom is a Yemeni military officer get sentenced to death for harming relations with a brotherly country. More at Calcutta News.Net, the AFP and at the YT
