19 Somali refugees arrive in Dhubab Port

According to the Interior Ministry, a new Somali group of refugees arrived to Yemen at the beginning of this week. 19 Somali refugees arrived in Dhubab Port in Taiz governorate and were sent to Kharwz Camp of refugees in cooperation with the Red Cross.

Two Yemeni fugitives to be tried in absentia over tourist bombing

Next week, a Yemeni state security court is to begin the trial in absentia of two Al-Qaeda men accused of planning the 2007 suicide bombing of a travel group that left eight Spanish tourists dead in the center of Marib governorate. Ammar al-Waeli and Hamza Al-Dhayani, who are still on the run, are to be charged with planning and preparing for the deadly attack that also left two Yemenis dead and injured five Spanish tourists and four other Yemenis.
 

Thousands of Yemenis appeal Obama to release

Thousands of Yemenis rallied Thursday in Sana’a in solidarity with Sheikh Mohammad Al-Moayd and his companion, Mohammad Zayed, the Yemenis who are detained in the United States. The rally came with a new trial of Al-Moayad (75) and his companion (45) which began on Tuesday after a US Court of Appeals overturned the convictions last October and ordered a retrial because of inflammatory testimony about unrelated terrorism cases in the first trial.