HIGH COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR JARALLAH’S MURDER

the High Court for Repeal in Yemen upheld the death sentence in the first instance on Ali Alsa’awani, murderer of Jarallah Omer, General Secretary of Yemeni Socialist Party. Sa’awani assassinated Jarrallah after Jarallah had given his speech in the Conference hall during the third general conference of the Islah party on 28 December 2002. The assassin admitted that he targeted Jarallah because he was the engineer of rapprochement between the Socialists and the Islah, the biggest parties in the Joint Meeting Parties, and former enemies. He also confessed that he targeted the Islah because of their rapprochement with what he called the ‘seculars’.