almotamar.net - The Specialised Penal Court has retained the case of defendants charged with hiding Eawaz al-Rabie and Qassim al-Raimi the escapees from the political security prison and trafficking weapons ands explosives for smuggling them to Somalia for issuing verdict on 19 April 2007.

At the beginning of the sitting chaired by Judge Najib al-Qaderi the prosecution presented the final presentation and asked to hold the case for judgment.

The first defendant Abdullah Awadh Abdullah al-Masri abstained from replying when the Judge asked him on the final presentation. The second defendant Idi Uthman Souli, having a Somali nationality answered the Judge question through a translator that he did not come to Yemen to trade with weapons but to inform about prices of weapons and whether there is possibility for him to bring his family to Yemen and asked to be allowed to call his family and return the sums of money seized with him.

The prosecution faced the first defendant al-Masri with charges of weapon smuggling and trafficking and hiding escapee prisoner from the p0o; itical security prison. It also directed to the second defendant Souli the charge of attempting to purchasing anti-aircraft weapons, snipers and personal weapons for smuggling to Somalia.