Almotamar.net - The Specialised Appeal Criminal Court confirmed in its Saturday sitting in Sana'a the preliminary verdict issued against 29 members of First Sana'a Cell that is composed of 37 members condemned of formation of a an armed gang for killing , sabotage, targeting security and military establishments and targeting Americans living in Yemen.

The verdict stipulated approval of the death sentence against the defendant No. 1 Ibrahim Mohammed Abdullah Sharafudin, and imprisonment for 10 years against 21 defendants, 8 years against 7 defendants and three years against 6 defendants.

In the sitting chaired by Judge Mohammed Hussein al-Hakimi the court changed the primary sentence against three of the defendants and sentenced them to 3 years of imprisonment. The court also condemned other three defendants accused of affiliation to an armed gang and involvement a criminal agreement to attack and kill a military commander. The court sentenced one of them to two years and a half, the second for two years and the third for one year.

The court acquitted two defendants for insufficient evidence and for another defendant the court considered the period he spent in prison as enough sentence, as stipulated in the preliminary sentence against him.