Yemen Rounds Up 101 Usual Suspects
These are not accused of being complicit in the kidnapping of the nine foreigners in June, six of whom are still missing. Yemen Post
Yemeni Interior Ministry announced that 101 suspects were arrested in Yemeni governorates in connection with kidnapping Yemeni and foreign people during the middle of last year till July 2009.
Interior Ministry said that arrests aimed to catch outlaws to bring them to justice, ”most of the suspects handed down in Yemeni courts in different cases related to broken laws” Interior Ministry explained.
101 suspects were arrested in different governorates, including 50 in the capital, 8 Aden, 7 Taiz, 8 Hadramout, 9 Hodeida, 3 Abyan, and 10 in Dhmar governorate.Sources cited that the ministry chased the criminals, who committed kidnapping during the 10 years past. Security forces launched lately new strategies to arrest outlaws in Yemen.
However, security bodies in Mukalla city of Hadramout arrested seven outlaw elements.
About four of the arrested people are believed to be part of the sabotage acts happened in the province early this week.
The rest of them aged between 23-28 were arrested in connection with acts calling for separation and harming the unity.
