Almotamar.net - The Appeals Section at the Penal Court, in its sitting held Saturday and chaired by Judge Saeed al-Qataa, fixed next Saturday for final procedures in the case of 16 defendants on charges of forging official documents and smuggling escapees from the political security prison in Aden as well as possessing weapons and explosives.

The prosecution accuses the cell of forging official documents and hiding escapees from the political security prison in Aden, who are accused of attacking the USS Cole Destroyer. The cell is also accused of possessing weapons and explosives in addition obtaining identity cards and passports in names other than theirs and using them for certain purposes, a matter required sentencing them with severest punishments decided legally. A first instance court had released seven of the accused; some were acquitted from charges and others the court considered the period of their detention as enough for their punishment.

The defendants in this case are Omar Masoud Nasser Ali, Abdullah Amin Abdulwali al-Rahbi, Fawaz Abdullah Muhsin Fadhl, Maath Ahmed Abdullah, Ali Ali Yahya Hassan al-Jawri, Saddam Ali Mohammed Abdulrahman, Adel Saleh Ahmed Dharweh, Mohammed Ali Mohammed Abdullah al-Dhiyaie, Ibrahim Ahmed Abdullah al-Sairafi, Abdullah Saleh Salem, Sami Ahmed Maher al-Haifi, Salim Muzahim Mohammed Bajabir, Wadhah Ali Mohammed Qaied al-Jund, Shawqi Ali al-Budani, Mohammed Ali Abdullah Haydar al-Nashiri, Rashid Mohammed Salim al-Abeedi, Ahmed Abdullah Mohammed al-Mareesi, Hani Abdulwariuth al-Ariq, Mutee Muhtir, Yusuf Mohammed Abdulrazzaq, Ahmed Saeed Ali al-Hijri and Ali Ahmed Ali al-Bajili