A Yemeni court has slammed death sentence on ten defendants which include United States President, Donald Trump; Saudi King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud and crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud over alleged war crimes.
The case against the defendants took place in their absence at Houthi-run Specialised Criminal Court in the Yemeni governorate of Saada over the attack on a bus full of young boys in Dahyan in the Majz district that was perpetrated by Saudi-led coalition.
According to Houthi-owned Yemen News Agency (SABA), the court slammed death sentence on Donald Trump, Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, Mohammed Bin Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, and Norton Schwartz for the alleged roles they played in the attack.
Also, Commander of the Saudi Air Force, Turki bin Bandar bin Abdulaziz, Yemeni President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, Yemen’s Vice President Ali Mohsen Saleh Al-Ahmar, Prime Minister Ahmed bin Dagher, Defence Minister Muhammad Al-Maqdishi, and former US Defence Secretary James Norman Mattis were issued death sentence.
The news agency revealed that the defendants are also ordered to pay a $10 billion fine to families of those that died in the 2019 airstrike.
The charges were connected to an airstrike which hit a school bus and killed 51 people including 40 children.
The news agency reported that: “The prosecution has registered its partial appeal to the fifth paragraph of the verdict, regarding the right of those included in the indictment. Thus, the court has not decided on it yet. Private prosecution attorney, Hamdan Shani, joined his appeal to the prosecution’s appeal, while the defence attorney, Abdel Wahab Al-Fadhli, reserved the right to appeal on behalf of the defendants.”
