YEMEN: APPEAL COURT CONFIRMS DEATH SENTENCES FOR AL-QAIDA MEMBERS OVER ATTACKS

a Yemeni security appeal court upheld death sentences against gang members Rawi Ahmed al-Saiary, Sultan Ali al-Saiary, Said Naif Sankar and Ali Muhsin al-Akbary for terrorism offences in March and April 2008. The court also reversed the death sentences of Haitham bin Saeid and Khaled Ba-Taisto to 12 years in jail for involvement in the killing of two Belgian tourists in southeastern province of Hadramout in 2008.