SANAA: An appeals court in Yemen on Saturday upheld drugs-trafficking sentences against four Pakistanis, condemning two to death and giving 25-year jail terms to the others, the website of the Yemeni Defence Ministry reported.Court president Mohammed al-Hakimi confirmed the verdicts handed down in October 2009, condemning Salim Daoud Abdelrahim and Imam Bakhsh Ayub Yakub to death, the website said. It said the other two convicts, Ghulam Khan Wali Mohammed and Mohammed Siddique Ahmed, were sentenced to 25 years in prison.
The court confirmed the death sentences against two Pakistani drug convicts and 25 years imprisonment against another two, the website reported. The four are accused of smuggling 1,695 kilogrammes of hashish into Yemen via its coastal territories.
Death sentences in Yemen are usually carried out by firing squad.