#public-executions

#public-executions

Houthi judges working with prosecutors in Yemen have sentenced 17 people to death by firing squad over alleged espionage on behalf of Israel and its western allies. The Specialized Criminal Court in the capital Sanaa handed down the sentences on Saturday morning in the cases of espionage cells within a spy network affiliated with American, Israeli, and Saudi intelligence, Houthi-run media said.

The measure is part of a trio of regulations that Kim Ilhyuk, a North Korean defector, calls the three evil laws. They were implemented during the Covid pandemic lockdown and intended to impose even stricter control on the population of the country, which Kim Jong Un, North Korea's supreme leader, rules with an iron fist. The focus, to a large extent, was on young people and their interaction with foreign cultures.