Almotamar.net - Specialised First Instance Criminal Court in Yemen issued on Saturday death sentence ageist the condemned Mumtaz Sultan Amiri, of Iranian nationality and the imprisonment for 5 years of each of Imam Jan Dost Mohammed Abdulwahid Mohammed Ishaq, a Baluchistan.

In the court sitting held under chairmanship of Judge Radwan al-Nimr the court acquitted 8 of the defendants in the case. The verdict stipulated the destruction of the seized and confiscation of the boat which the defendants used. Quantity of the of hashish

In the first sitting in the trial if the defendants held in mid February this year the prosecution charged the condemned of bringing one ton and 59 kilograms of drugs from Iranian port of Kanark into the Yemeni regional waters before they were arrested offshore Hadramout province . The prosecution also charged the second and the third defendants of taking drugs.

Yemeni coast guard troops seized the quantity of drugs and the persons involved in bringing it in the mid of December last year offshore Hadramout province.