|
Sana'a: The final verdict for 36 Yemenis accused of being Al Qaida members will be given on October 11, said Yemen's State Security Court on Saturday.
The court refused a bail application to release Jaber Al Bana'a, a Yemeni-American national, who is accused of being involved in terrorist acts in the United States and Yemen.
Terrorism
The 36 defendants, some of whom are being tried in absentia, were accused of forming an armed gang to carry out acts of terrorism and sabotage in Yemen including attempts to bomb oil facilities in Yemen on September 2006.
The alleged Al Qaida new generation's leadership in Yemen, Nasser Abdul Kareem Al Wahaishi, Qasem Mahdi Al Raimi, and Ebrahim Abdullah Howiedi, are among those being tried in absentia. They are still at large since they escaped with 20 others from the maximum security prison in Sana'a in February 2006.
On November 7 2007, the primary court handed down jail terms ranging between from 2 to 15 years to the 36 defendants. Al Wahaishi, Al Raimi, and Howiedi, who were described by the general prosecutor at the time, as the masterminds of those attacks, were sentenced to 15 years each. And Al Bana'a was sentenced to 10 years.
On March 3, 2007, when the trial began, the general prosecutor accused the 36 defendants of participating in the formation of an armed gang to carry out acts of sabotage in Yemen.
|
