YEMEN HANDS DOWN DEATH SENTENCE TO SOMALI DRUG DEALER

January 2, 2011: the Primary Specialized Penal Court in Yemen's Hadramout province sentenced Somali national Ali Yousuf Ibrahim to death for drug trading and resisting police. Ibrahim was arrested in June 2009 with 180 drug injections he smuggled into the country. (Sources: Yemen Post, 02/01/2011)