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| Yemen asks Soddies to cough up al-Asnaj |
| 2005-10-15 |
| Yemen said on Saturday it has asked neighboring Saudi Arabia to extradite Abdullah al-Asnaj, a prominent exiled opposition figure, accusing him of subversive activities. "We have asked the kingdom to hand over Asnaj based on the 
agreement between the two countries which prohibits each state from allowing any political or media activity against the other," Yemeni Foreign Minister Abubakr al-Qirbi told Reuters. Asnaj, a former foreign minister, left Yemen for Saudi Arabia in the early 1990s after being granted a pardon following his sentencing to death on treason charges. He was also foreign minister in a short-lived breakaway government in southern Yemen in 1994. "Asnaj was a refugee in Saudi Arabia and was not active politically, but lately he has announced that he would form an opposition group abroad, and this is against the agreement between Sanaa and Riyadh," Qirbi said. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |