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Arabia

Yemen releases long-jailed woman, ex-Guantanamo prisoners

2007-10-11

Yemeni authorities have released four ex-Guantanamo inmates after more than three months in prison since they have been extradited by the US authorities in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to Yemen, an official source said.

The official website 26sep.net reported Wednesday that the Political Security have freed four returnees from Guantanamo. The source identified the released as Fawazi Noaman Hamoud, Ali Muhsen Saleh Nasser, Sadeq Mohammad Saeed Isameel and Hani Abdu Musleh Shulan. The Amnesty International has appealed to president Abdullah Saleh to release Guantanamo returnees who are being held in Yemenis prisons without charges or trial.

The official news agency Saba reported Wednesday that Yemeni authorities also released Tuesday the most prominent woman prisoner in Yemen Amina Abdullatif after ten years in jail for allegedly murdering her husband in 1998. Amina was scheduled to be executed in May 2005 but the execution was stayed pending a review to determine her age at the time of the offence. She was sentenced to death in May 1999 when she was 16 years old. In 2002 Amina was scheduled to be executed but the executioner noticed that she was pregnant and the execution was halted.

Posted by:Fred

#5 It says somewhere in the Muslim sacred writings that Allah can cause a good Muslim wife to bear a man's child years after he's died. This must be one of those cases.

Posted by: trailing wife 2007-10-11 21:01

#4 Yep, Fred, it reminds me of that old comedy, wherein the Manger scene was being played by some school kids at Christmastime.

Moderator: And the Holy Spirit shown round about her, and she was sore afraid, for she was great with child.

Smart-Alick bystander: "Boy, was she ever!"

Posted by: BA 2007-10-11 13:02

#3 Heck, if the Yemenis were faithful Muslims they would have stoned her for having being an adulteress.

Posted by: Rambler 2007-10-11 12:12

#2 She'd been in jug for three years. She musta really been showing by the time the executioner got around to having a look at her.

Posted by: Fred 2007-10-11 07:58

#1 The executioner noticed that she was pregnant. That is a very odd statement that makes me uncomforatble like if the plumber noticed that you are out of sugar.

Posted by: Super Hose 2007-10-11 07:56

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