A Yemeni security court on Monday sentenced U.S.-born wanted Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaki to 10 years in prison for inciting people to kill foreigners, and ordered death penalty to a Yemeni for murdering a Frenchman.
The Sanaa-based security court sentenced in absentia U.S.-born wanted Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaki to 10 years in prison for inciting people to kill foreigners and taking part in an armed gang. His relative Othman al-Awalaki got 8-year prison term for the same charges.
The same court handed down death penalty against Hisham Mohammed Assem for murdering a Frenchman working at the Austrian oil company OMV in the capital Sanaa on October 6, 2010.