The Specialized Penal Court in the capital
Sana'a sentenced Wednesday five persons to 12 and 15 years in jail after
convicting them of abducting four Czech tourists last January.
At
the hearings presided over by Judge Muhsen Alwan, the court sentenced Ali Ahmed
Saleh al-Ghadri, Ahmed Mohamed Nasser al-Waleedi, and Abdulsalam Abdulkhaleq
Saleh al-Muafa for 12 years from the date of their arrest.
Dhamar province, the hometown of the first convicted al-Ghadri.In addition, the court sentenced Mohamed Ali Ahmed Hizam al-Khaldi and
Mohamed Saleh al-Khaldi, fugitives from justice, to 15 years
imprisonment from the date of their arrest.
The court ordered the confiscation of seizures on the case.
According
to the indictment, the convicts abducted at gunpoint Peter Puller,
Pavel Hendrik, Jan Navi Hozquin and Susanna Reba Novi, Czech nationals,
while their moving on board of a 4WD-car on Sana'a-Hodeidah road in
Manakha area of Sana'a province. They tried to transfer the abductees to
Bani Khalid in Anes district of Dhamar province, the hometown of the
first convicted al-Ghadri.