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Pro-Houthi court sentences Yemen president to death for treason

FILE PHOTO - Yemen's President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi holds his hat during a visit to the country's northern province of Marib July 10, 2016. REUTERS/ Ali Owidha

DUBAI (Reuters) - A Yemeni court in territory controlled by the armed Houthi movement sentenced the group’s enemy in a two-year-old civil war President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and six other top officials in his government to death for “high treason” on Saturday.



The Houthis, allied to Saudi Arabia’s arch-enemy Iran, have progressively lost territory to the offensive but maintain control over the capital and most population centers.


Saba quoted the Sanaa criminal court as having convicted Hadi of “incitement and assistance to the aggressor state of Saudi Arabia and its allies.”


“With great pride my name is on this list of honor,” bin Mubarak wrote on his official Facebook page, calling his convicted colleagues his “brothers”.

Reporting By Noah Browning, editing by David Evans