YEMENI AUTHORITIES CALLED UPON TO COMMUTE JUVENILE OFFENDER'S DEATH SENTENCE

Amnesty International called upon the Yemeni authorities to halt the imminent execution of a young man for a crime he is alleged to have committed at the age of 15. Muhammed Taher Thabet Samoum was sentenced to death for a murder he is alleged to have committed in May 2002. Although he does not have a birth certificate, he maintains that he is now 24 years old, which would make him 15 years old at the time of the offence.