Yemen: Pakistanis Guilty of Drug Smuggling Charges
This was a huge bust, tens of millions in street value. As usual, it was with a bit of help: On Thursday, a source indicated that Yemeni Coast Guard forces in collaboration with military ships belonging to coalition forces positioned in the Arab Sea managed to seize a Pakistani ship (Makran) boarding 10 ton of drugs. It was seized near Mukallah, where lots of guns exit en route for Somalia.
Almotamar.net – The Specialised First Instance Criminal Court in Yemen passed its sentence Monday against Pakistanis condemned of bringing drugs into Yemen. It has sentenced execution penalty against one of the Pakistanis and gave other 15 Pakistanis 25 years in jail for each. They have been convicted of bringing and transporting a quantity of 10 thousand kg of drugs to Yemen.
In the court sitting on Monday chaired by Judge Muhsin Mohammed Alwan the Judge read out reasons and findings of the ruling that also stipulated the destruction of drugs materials and confiscation the boat on board of which the drugs were seized.
After reading the verdict, the defendants began shouting and called names against the Judge and the sentence that they described as unjust. They resisted security men inside the court and attacked some of them.
The prosecution had charged the accused with bringing 10 thousand kg of drugs on board of a boat coming from the Pakistani port of Qawadir and entering in it into the Yemeni regional waters.
The convicted were caught in the Indian Ocean during their entering the Yemeni territorial waters and in their possession the quantity of the hashish drug.
