Yemen Court Sentences 10 Shia to Death |
SANAA - A Yemeni court sentenced to death on Tuesday 10 members of a Shia movement in the north. |
The court jailed six others for 15 years in one of a series of trials of members of the movement in Northern provinces by Zaidi Shi'ite Muslims known as Houthis after their religious and clan leaders. The trials are of men captured during a month-long fight at Bani Husheish only 30 km (19 miles) north of the capital Sanaa last year. Two others were sentenced to death last week. Upon sentencing the men shouted the Houthi slogan "Allah is great, death to America, death to Israel, curse the Zionism, victory to Islam." They were found guilty of belonging to a so-called "terrorist organization," the first time Yemeni courts have accused Houthis on a charge usually reserved for al Qaeda militants. |