Almotamar.net - Specialised Appeals Court in Yemen on Wednesday cancelled the first instance sentence against 13 Iranian national as it is not specialty of Yemeni judiciary.
The appeals verdict stipulated the destruction of drugs seized with the defendants, confiscation of their boat and deportation of the defendants.
The court depended on its ruling on whereabouts and reasons of the verdict to contradiction of the statement written by the Yemeni forces against the report of the international forces in that they were that discovered the drugs quantity and handed it over to Yemeni forces and that they destroyed the 3-ton quantity and kept a quantity of 20 kg as a sample for prosecution.

Among reasons of cancelling the sentence is the report by the public authority for sea affairs on estimation of the distance separating the Yemeni eastern coasts and points latitudes conjunction? The report defined the distance at three points; the first 15 miles, the second 16 miles and the third 13 miles, i.e. the capture by the international forces occurred outside the Yemeni specialization.