Houthi Court Claims to Have Completed Procedures in the Case of the Houthi Leader’s Brother “Assassination” and Accuses Saudi Arabia
Yemen Monitor/Sana’a/Exclusive:
A Houthi-controlled court in Sana’a continued on Sunday to hear the appeal of 30 individuals charged with the assassination of the brother of the Houthi leader and collaborating with a foreign country.
The official Houthi news agency reported that the criminal division had approved a request from one of the defendants to submit an appeal in the case of the assassination of “Ibrahim Badr al-Din al-Houthi.”
The public prosecution requested in the session that the case be “reserved for judgment,” and the court decided to postpone it until the following Sunday to complete the procedures in this case. The prosecution has charged 30 defendants with the crime of conspiring, assisting, and participating in the kidnapping and murder of “Ibrahim Badr al-Din al-Houthi and Muhammad Hussein al-Badr,” as well as collaborating with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia “with the intent to harm the political and military position of the Yemeni Republic” as stated in the charge sheet.
Previously, a primary court had issued a verdict convicting 10 of the defendants and sentencing them to death by firing squad, with nine others receiving prison sentences ranging from ten to five years. One defendant was acquitted, and the house where the crime was committed and the phones used by the convicted individuals were confiscated. Another defendant was acquitted due to insufficient evidence.
In 2019, the Houthi group announced the death of Ibrahim Badr al-Din al-Houthi, the brother of group leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, in an incident whose details remain unclear to this day. The Houthis have not provided any information about the incident, the location of the assassination, or its causes.
