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| Yemen: A murderer appointed as judge in Radaa |
| 2005-12-26 |
| The Supreme Judiciary Board had recently appointed Abdulgawi Mohamed Saeed Al-Marwani as a judge in Rada’a First Instance Court. Reliable sources in Taiz said Al-Marwani had committed willful murder in a Taiz hospital in March 1999. He was allegedly working in Yafros First instance court in Jabal Habashi in Taiz when he committed his crime six years ago. He killed Noman Ahmed Ismail following a quarrel between the judge’s father and the deceased. Many newspapers including Al-Ayam, Al-Jomhoria, Al-Wahdawi, Al-Quds and Al-Sharq Al-Awsat had tackled the case of murder at the time. Some prominent personalities, sheikhs and the dignitaries of Shra’ab then intervened to ensure that Al-Marwani is not punished. The Islah party also exerted pressure because the judge apparently was one of its prominent leaders. The victim’s family said it accepted blood money because of fear that the crime could escalate into a revenge clash between the relatives of each family. The family received blood money four times the actual value to drop the case and set the killer free. A Taiz source said the former minister of justice Ismail Al-Wazeer had re-appointed the judge to a court in Shabwa province a year after he committed his crime. In the recent judiciary appointments in December 2004, the murderer was re-appointed by the Supreme Judiciary Board to a court in Rada’a. He is still working in Rada’a, Albaidha despite being proven to have killed another citizen. |
| Posted by:Fred |