Specialized court in Sanaa issues rulings in 19 cases involving 27 defendants

SANAA, May 11 (YPA) – The Specialized Criminal Appeals Division in the capital, Sanaa, issued rulings on Sunday in 19 cases involving drug trafficking and promotion, banditry (Hiraba), murder, kidnapping, and rape.

The session was presided over by Judge Abdullah Al-Najjar, with the membership of Judge Hussein Al-Ezzi and Judge Mohammed Muflih, in the presence of the prosecution member Judge Ali Al-Julhi and the division’s registrar Abdulsalam Abbad. The session was held to pronounce the verdicts against 27 defendants.

In the session, the Division resolved to uphold the preliminary (first-instance) rulings, which convicted all defendants of the charges attributed to them in the indictments. The court affirmed the following sentences:

• Capital Punishment: One defendant was sentenced to death.
• Imprisonment: Sentences for other defendants ranged between 5 and 25 years.
• Sentence Reductions: The court commuted the sentences for two individuals:
  • The first had a death sentence commuted to 15 years of imprisonment.
  • The second was granted time served (sufficiency with the period already spent in detention).

The Public Prosecution had previously referred the defendants to trial for crimes committed over the recent period within the Capital Secretariat and several other governorates.

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