Yemen’s Houthis execute nine men for involvement in Samad death

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Samad was killed in April 2018 by a Saudi-led coalition air strike in the port city of Hudaida on Yemen’s west coast.

Poster of Saleh al Samad, senior Houthi official, is held by a member of the honour guards during the funeral procession of al Samad and his six body guards, who were killed by Saudi-led air strikes, in Sanaa, Yemen April 28, 2018. (Reuters)

Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi
movement has said that authorities had executed nine men
who were convicted of involvement in the 2018 killing of Saleh
al Samad, then the armed group’s top civilian leader.

Samad, who held the post of president in the
Houthi-controlled administration which runs most of northern
Yemen, was killed in April 2018 by a Saudi-led coalition air
strike in the port city of Hodeidah on Yemen’s west coast.

He was the most senior official to be killed by the
coalition in the years-long war in which the Houthis are
fighting forces loyal to the internationally-recognised
government based in the southern port city of Aden.

READ MORE: Top Houthi official killed in Saudi-led air strike in Yemen

The government is backed by a Saudi-led coalition which has
received support from Western powers. Saudi Arabia and its
mostly Gulf Arab allies allege the Houthis are proxies for their
arch-rival Iran, something the group and Tehran deny.

Houthi authorities said the nine men were charged and
convicted for their involvement in the killing of Samad,
including spying and sharing sensitive information with the
Saudi-led coalition.

The Houthis said the execution by firing squad was witnessed
by “masses”, including blood relatives and Houthi leaders in the
capital Sanaa, which they control.

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Source: Reuters

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