Almotamar Net - SANA'A,(Saba) - The Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence handed on Ali Ahmad Jarallah who was convicted of murdering the leading socialist politician Jarallah Omar in 2002.

Omar was shot to death while attending a congress for the opposition Islam party in Sana'a on December 28, 2002.

In September 2003, a primary court convicted Jarallah of assassinating Omar.

The verdict was backed by a court of appeals last April.

The convict has told the primary and appeal courts that he had killed Omar for his alleged public secular opinions.

He is to be executed by a firing squad after the sentence endorsed by President Ali Abdullah Saleh.