YEMEN: MUSLIM SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING YEMENI JEW

a Yemeni appeals court sentenced a Muslim convicted of killing a Yemeni Jew to death, overturning a previous verdict ordering the man to pay the victim's family a fine instead of facing capital punishment. The family criticised the previous March 2009 verdict, when the judge found Abdel Aziz Yehia Hamoud al-Abdi, a retired Yemeni air force pilot, "mentally unstable." Al-Abdi admitted gunning down Jewish teacher Moshe Yaish Nahari in December in Omran.