Request to renew lifting immunity of al-Houthi in Parliament

SANA'A, Oct.06 (Saba)-
In its session on Tuesday , the Parliament referred a request for renewing revoking
immunity
of the parliamentarian Yahya Badr al-Din al-Houthi to the constitutional and legal
affairs committee to study and present its outcomes on it to the parliament next
Saturday.
Justice Minster Ghazi Shaif al-Aghbari, who submitted the request, made it clear to
the parliament on the procedures taken by the government during the past period
towards
this topic.
In his request letter, al-Aghbari demonstrated the main reasons for his request in
which he pointed out that al-Houthi is convicted of playing part in forming an
armed group,
inciting a rebellion against the government, and supporting the terrorist and
sabotage acts in some districts of Saada province as well as spying for other
countries.
Al- Houthi rebels have been launching intermittent wars against the troops since 2004.
Since the fighting erupted in 2004, thousands of people, soldiers and insurgents
have been killed in Saada province, after the rebel group was founded by 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 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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