http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=73838&d=28&m=11&y=2005
Monday, 28, November, 2005 (26, Shawwal, 1426)
Yemen Executes Cleric for Murder of Politician
Khaled Al-Mahdi, Arab News
SANAA, 28 November 2005 - A Yemeni preacher convicted of
murdering a top opposition politician in December 2002 was executed in Sanaa
yesterday, prison officials said.
Ali Ahmad Jarallah, 28, was executed by firing squad at the
central prison in the capital Sanaa, they told Arab News. "A police officer
shot four fatal shots from a Kalashnikov rifle into Jarallah's back," one
official said.
A Yemeni court sentenced Jarallah in September 2003 to death
for shooting dead Jarallah Omar, the assistant secretary-general of the Yemeni
Socialist Party. The sentence was upheld by an appeals court and President Ali
Abdullah Saleh affirmed the verdict last week.
Jarallah, a prayer leader at a mosque in the city, shot Omar
several times at close range during a congress for Al-Islah party in Sanaa on
Dec. 28, 2002. He was arrested on the spot.
Jarallah told the primary court that he killed Omar because
of his stance against the Shariah. "I killed a man who fought against God's
law," he shouted after the verdict was announced on Sept. 14, 2003.
The execution, carried out amid tight security, was attended
by relatives of the assassinated politician and his family's lawyers.
Journalists were barred from attending.
Armored police vehicles patrolled the prison's vicinity and
special force personnel were stationed on the prison walls.
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