Panel court sentences Iranian drug smuggler to death

SANA'A, Nov. 15 (Saba)- The penal court sentenced on Saturday an
Iranian to death and other 11 Iranians and a Pakistani 25 years in
jail in charge of drugs smuggling and entering Yemeni waters
illegally.Headed by Judge Muhsan Alwan, the court found the first
convict, Iyob Mohamed Hawt guilty sentencing him to death.

The court also issued jail sentences of 25 years each against 13
other Iranians and the Pakistani. The prosecution said it would
appeal the sentences. The court asked to confiscate the boat which
was carried drugs Last March, the Yemeni coastguards in cooperation
with the international forces seized the boat that carried three
tons of drugs.