Almotamar.net - The Yemeni First Instance Criminal Court on Monday issued death sentences against 6 defendants and imprisonment of 10 others to terms of 8 to 15 years. The convicted persons were from al-Qaeda organisation cell ‘ Tarim cell known as Jund al-Yemen’ condemned of perpetrating terrorist acts , among them the killing of the two Belgian tourists and the driver Ahmed al-Amiri in Hadramout January 2008, attacking & July School near the American embassy in march of the same year, attacking residence complex of foreigners in Sana’a and attacking a number of security checkpoints, military camps and oil and vital installations and exposing security and safety of society to danger.

In the court sitting held under chairmanship of Judge Muhsin Mohammed Alwan the court passed its judgment of death sentence against each of Rawi Ahmed al-Saiari, Haitham Saeed Mubarak, Khalid Muslim Batees, Sultan Ali Sulaiman al-Saiari, Ali Muhsin Saleh al-Akbari and saeed Naïf Saeed Sankad.

The ruling also stipulated imprisonment sentences for 15 years for each of Mohammed Saeed Ahmed Baueidan, Mohammed Attiyah Ahmed al-Wahibi, Syrian , Mahmud Ahmed Mohammed Darwish, Syrian , Mohammed Khalil Ismael al-Shatti al-Shahwani, Syrian and Abdullah Ali Saleh Bawazir, Saudi.

The indictment mentioned participation of the defendants in the period December 2007- November 2008 with an armed cell and terrorist organisation carrying out criminal acts aimed at attacking foreigners in embassies, companies and places of their living quarters and tourists.

The court also sentenced to 12 years imprisonment against 3 of the accused and one of them to 8 years in prison and one of them to 8 years in jail.