A Yemeni court has issued death sentences against ten defendants including President Donald Trump, Saudi King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, and crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud for alleged war crimes.
The case
against the defendants was held in their absence at Houthi-run Specialised
Criminal Court in the Yemeni governorate of Saada over the Saudi-led
coalition’s attack on a bus full of young boys in Dahyan in the Majz district.
The
Houthi-owned Yemen News Agency (SABA) confirmed that the court issued death
sentences to Donald Trump, Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, Mohammed Bin Salman
Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, and Norton Schwartz for their alleged roles in the
attack.
Commander of
the Saudi Air Force, Turki bin Bandar bin Abdulaziz, Yemeni President Abedrabbo
Mansour Hadi, Yemen's Vice President Ali Mohsen Saleh Al-Ahmar, Prime Minister
Ahmed bin Dagher, Defence Minister Muhammad Al-Maqdishi, and former US Defence
Secretary James Norman Mattis were also sentenced to death.
The news
agency indicated that the defendants are also required to pay a $10 billion
fine to families of those killed in the 2019 airstrike.
The charges
related to an airstrike which reportedly hit a school bus, killing 51 people
including 40 children.
The news
agency reported that: “The prosecution has registered its partial appeal to the
fifth paragraph of the verdict, regarding the right of those included in the
indictment. Thus, the court has not decided on it yet. Private prosecution
attorney, Hamdan Shani, joined his appeal to the prosecution’s appeal, while
the defence attorney, Abdel Wahab Al-Fadhli, reserved the right to appeal on
behalf of the defendants.”
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