A Houthi court sentences Al-Mutawakil to death in the case of Ahmed Sharaf Al-Din
English - Wednesday 30 June 2021 الساعة 11:22 am
Sana'a, NewsYemen:
On Tuesday, June 29, 2021, a Houthi court in Sanaa issued a judicial ruling to execute what it described as a leader in al-Qaeda, Majdi Abdul Karim al-Mutawakil, on charges of assassinating academic and politician Ahmed Sharaf al-Din, the representative of the Houthi group in the National Dialogue Conference, who was assassinated in 2014 on his way. To attend the closing session of the Dialogue Conference.
The judgment pronounced condemning what it described as “the emir of the Sana’a cell in Al-Qaeda organization, Magdi Abdul Karim Al-Mutawakil, 32 years old,” with what was attributed to him in the Public Prosecution newspaper, and punishing him with death as a means of retribution and retribution for the killing of the victims, Ahmed Abdul Rahman Sharaf Al-Din, Fathi Muhammad Al-Maamari, Sultan Abdul-Quddus Al-Mahbashi, Ali Zaid Al-Dhari, Ali Al-Sharafi and Khaled Khawlani".
And as announced by (Saba) Agency, which is under the control of the Houthi militia, the sentence was executed (by firing squad to death in Al-Sabeen Square and crucifixion of the convict for two days, with the parents and citizens allowed to attend).
The ruling included obligating the court (the convict to hand over thirty million riyals to the heirs of the victims in return for compensation estimated by the court for them, in addition to handing over the aroush of felonies to the victim, Yahya Dahmane, with delivery of treatment costs, ten million riyals as compensation, and thirty million riyals in exchange for litigation and fines expenses).
In the Houthi announcement, the court "relied on the convictions of the convict, the minutes of collection of evidence, the list of evidentiary evidence and the official reports submitted by the criminal prosecution during the trial, for the reasons for the ruling."
Law professor at Sana’a University, Ahmed Sharaf El-Din, a member of the National Dialogue Conference, was assassinated while on his way to the conference, on January 21, 2014, 3 months after the assassination of Dr. Abdul-Karim Jadban, to join them in similar operations, Dr. Muhammad Abdul-Malik Al-Mutawakel and Abdul-Karim Al-Khaiwani. All of them belong to a component of the Houthi group in the National Dialogue Conference.
