By Jameel Al-Ja'dabi - The Eastern Court of the City of Sana'a has sentenced Ali Sa'd Al-Ba'dani, Abdul-Wahab Al-Turabi and Ali Al-Qahim to three-month imprisonment and fined them one hundred thousand riyals each, after having been accused of trafficking in Yemeni antiquities.
Read out by judge Mohammed Al-Thawr, the judgment ruled the confiscation of the artifacts seized with the convicts upon their arrest early 2006.
In another antiquity case, the same court has passed today a judgment on Abdu Ahmed Al-Jahni sentencing him to two and a half months and fining him fifty thousand riyals. It also ordered the confiscation of antiquities found with him on June 20, 2006, at Naqeel Yaslih checkpoint on Sana'a-Dhamar highway.
The police arrested the first three convicts in April, 2006, in the city of Sana'a, as they were holding 18 artifacts which they had brought from the eastern province of Al-Jawf.
A judicial source told almotamar.net that the court has taken written pledges from the convicts not to return to antiquity trafficking.