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Yahya al-Houthi sentenced to 15 years in jail

A Yemeni court has sentenced the brother of the leader of the Yemen Hezbollah Movement Houthis, Yahya al-Houthi, to fifteen years in jail in absentia.

Yahya, who is now in Germany, has been convicted of planning the assassination of important figures in Yemen.

The defendant was also found guilty of membership of what the court called a terrorist organization, assaulting the constitutional order and distributing important information to foreign governments on Saturday.

Yahya was elected to parliament in 2003, but his parliamentary immunity was lifted late last year.

Yemen has stepped up its military operation in the region despite an offer by the Yemen Hezbollah Movement Houthi leader, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, to end the six-month conflict. Abdul Malik accepted five points of the government’s conditions for truce.

Sana’a, however, rejected the offer, pointing to a sixth condition stipulating a Yemen Hezbollah Movement Houthi pledge not to attack Saudi Arabia. Despite the Houthi fighters’ pledge to meet the sixth point, both Yemen and Riyadh have declined to sign a truce deal with them.

The Yemeni government’s offensive, which was joined by Riyadh in November, has so far claimed the lives of many civilians and displaced thousands of others from their homes in northern villages.

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