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YEMEN: jewish murder victims family rejects restitution; killer spared death penalty
A Muslim man who shot dead a Jewish teacher in broad daylight was ordered yesterday to pay the victim’s family US$27,500 (Dh100,925) in blood money, but escaped the death sentence after the judge ruled he was mentally ill, a verdict the family’s lawyer called a “scandal”…
YEMEN: yemeni jews were forced to migrate to israel
Al-Quds al-Arabi has a piece on the Yemeni Jews from Amran recently airlifted to Israel. Highlights include the blaming of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, the claim that the rest of the Jews have had their passports confiscated by the Yemeni government, and the involvement of the U.S. embassy in Sana’a…
amran jews relocated
Four Jewish families have arrived in Sana’a coming from Amran province launching the relocation of Jews to the city, a spokesman for head of the Parliament Committee on Freedoms and Rights.
yemeni jews say ‘ma feesh sallama’ to amran
A number of Yemeni Jews said that they are preparing to leave the country along with their families due to the fact that the government allegedly failed to protect them from extremists. These extremists are supported by influential figures in the Amran governorate.
10,000 Members of al Ahmar Jr. Fan Club Attend Opposition Rally in Amran
Here’s a Times propaganda piece on the same rally the al-Arabiya guys had their footage swiped from. A lot of things in here make me want to laugh because they are so antithetical to Yemeni tribalism…about as antithetical as an al-Ahmar representing the face of change. An unusually bad article from the Times…this thing sounds like [...]
