[Yemen Post] Three suspects were sentenced to death after a Yemeni court convicted them of throwing a bomb on a revolution protesters killing one of them last year, informed sources in Taiz city said on Sunday. The East Taiz court handed down the death sentences in absentia since the three are still on the lam, the sources said. The convicts were named: Omer Ghulais, Muhammad Abdu Saif and Ahmed Hamoud Saeed.
The bomb exploded at the freedom square in downtown in February 2011 in the province, which turned into a battlefield between revolutionaries and the pro-former regime forces.
Al-Bathadi was the first revolutionary victim in the southern province.
The verdict has been hailed by the youth-led protesters in the change and freedom squares in Yemeni cities, with youths inside the change square in Sanaa hoping it will be the first in a series of coming verdicts against all involved in the crackdown against the protests last year.
Activists and lawyers said justice must be established in Yemen, especially on cases related the popular uprising as they argued the verdict in Taiz today was a real victory.