Jail verdicts against sabotage gang in Yemen

SANA'A, Jan. 17 (Saba) - The First
Instance Court in Yemen passed on Sunday sentences ranging from five to ten yeas in
prison
on the 12th sabotage group of Bani Hushaish, the GPC-run al-Motamar.net reported on
Sunday.
The verdict comes among a series of rulings delivered last year for the subversive
groups charged with supporting the north-based insurgency of al-Houthi.
Indictments also included that the members looted the people's properties and
destroyed military equipment.
In 2009, about 20 pro-Houthi suspects have been sentenced to death and many others
to jail terms ranging from 5 to 15 years.
Since the fighting erupted in 2004, thousands of people, soldiers and insurgents
have been killed in Saada, which lies close to border with Saudi Arabia, after the
rebel
group was founded by Shiite rebel leader Hussein al-Houthi.
Hussein, the eldest brother of the current group leader Abdul-Malik, was killed by
the army in September 2004.
The Yemeni government accuses the al-Houthi group of trying to reinstall the rule
of imams, which was toppled by a republican revolution in northern Yemen in 1962.
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