[12/May/2008]

SANA'A, May 12 (Saba) – The State Security Court ruled on Monday to execute four of the loyalists of the rebel leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi charged with taking part in a gang to kill pro-government people.

The ruling is to be implemented on one of the four who is now in jail and deemed in absentia for the three others who are still at large.

The four were found guilty of hailing a car, at the district of Dahesh, with bullets killing major Ahmed Abdullah Fadhil and Ali Dhaif Allah Jaze Jamil and wounding two others.

The incident allegedly took place under the orders of  the rebel leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi.

The four were named as Ali Dhaif Allah Shaathan Muhawish (arrested), Mahdi Dhaif Allah Shaathan Muhawish, Hamdi Ali Shaathan and Salman Ahmed Hassan ( at large).
FR