Yemen prosecutor urges death penalty for murder of Jew

A little thread of sanity inside Yemen which routinely rewards its resident jihadis. I doubt the court will order the death penalty, in fact I bet the court will just give Abdul Aziz yahya al-Abdi a slap on the wrist. AFP

AMRAN, Yemen (AFP) — The prosecution demanded the death sentence on Monday for a Yemeni Muslim who has boasted of killing a Jewish compatriot north of the capital Sanaa late last year.

The court set March 2 as the date for its verdict against Abdul Aziz Yahya al-Abdi, 39, who admitted in December to shooting dead Masha Yaeish al-Nahari in the town of Raydah in Amran province.

Abdi, peering from the dock into the court through an iron gate, showed no remorse for his actions and repeatedly interrupted the prosecutor during the hearing to renew his confession.

The former air force pilot has repeatedly said he carried out the murder after warning Yemeni Jews that he would kill them unless they converted to Islam.

"I told them in a letter that they should either convert to Islam or leave Yemen, or I would kill them," he said at an earlier hearing.

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