Executives applaud violators of child in Yemen – ElSol.com.ar – Diario de Mendoza, Argentina

Hundreds of people gathered in an arid wasteland in the port city of Aden, Yemen, to witness the public performance of Wadah Refat and Mohamed Khaled. The two young men, aged 28 and 31 respectively, were sentenced to death a few months ago. for kidnapping, raping and murdering 12-year-old Mohamed Saad. The events took place last May.

The boy was playing near the house of one of his executioners in the district of Al Basatin, when the prisoners dragged him to the house and raped him at the house. Inside its walls.

"After the violation, they could not silence the cries of the child who was asking for help. One of them grabbed a knife and fractured his neck, "says the court verdict.

In case two other people were involved. As well A 33-year-old woman, a family member of one of the rapists, was sentenced to death for helping to dismember her body. Her public performance, however, was postponed because of her pregnancy. It will take place at the end of the lactation period. The fourth person involved was sentenced to two years in prison.

In blue pants and shirts, handcuffed and surrounded by uniforms, Wadah and Mohamed were killed in the gusts of an execution squad, the usual method by which security forces apply capital punishment dictated by the courts of the poorest country in the Gulf. Persian

The penal code considers alternatives stoning, scaffolding and decapitation.

"Public performance it is an even more grotesque violation of human rights, Especially in a country where the ability of the accused to obtain adequate legal representation and coverage of the process is very limited, "said Sarah Leah Whitson, regional director of Human Rights Watch.

The penultimate mbad execution took place in January in Abb, about 200 kilometers south of Sanaa. The run, held in a crowded stadium, received such attention that it was recorded with a drone and then broadcast on television.