Almotamar.net, Saba - The Specialized Penal Court in the capital Sana'a sentenced Wednesday five persons to 12 and 15 years in jail after convicting them of abducting four Czech tourists last January.

At the hearings presided over by Judge Muhsen Alwan, the court sentenced Ali Ahmed Saleh al-Ghadri, Ahmed Mohamed Nasser al-Waleedi, and Abdul-Salam Abdul-Khaleq Saleh al-Muafa for 12 years from the date of their arrest.

In addition, the court sentenced Mohamed Ali Ahmed Hizam al-Khaldi and Mohamed Saleh al-Khaldi, fugitives from justice, to 15 years imprisonment from the date of their arrest.

The court ordered the confiscation of seizures on the case.

According to the indictment, the convicts abducted at gunpoint Peter Puller, Pavel Hendrik, Jan Navi Hozquin and Susanna Reba Novi, Czech nationals, while their moving on board of a 4WD-car on Sana'a-Hodeidah road in Manakha area of Sana'a province. They tried to transfer the abductees to Bani Khalid in Anes district of Dhamar province, the hometown of the first convicted al-Ghadri.