[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Tribal Lions of Islam have on Tuesday kidnapped the head of the first instance court in al-Madhariba and Ras al-Ara areas, located in Yemen...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
’s southern province of restive Lahj
... a Yemeni governate located in the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. It is the stomping grounds on the southern secessionist al-Harak movement
that is under the control of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) militias.
Human rights sources confirmed that button men from the al-Qa’alala tribe of al-Sabiha area kidnapped the head of the al-Madhariba and Ras al-Ara court, Judge Abdulhakim Abdo Saif al-Najashi, as well as his son Qassem, in addition to court clerk Mohammed Youssef Salem, by force of arms after intercepting their car on a coastal road.
The sources attributed the abduction of the head of the court to an attempt to pressure him to release one of the accused in a criminal case still pending for judgment.