The Public Prosecution of Taiz suspended on Wednesday, February 27, 2013, the execution of a death sentence against a juvenile, Mohammad Abdul-Karim Haza'a.
The suspension came hours after Seyaj Organization for Childhood Protection (Seyaj) appealed to President Abdu Rabo Mansour Hadi, the Attorney-General and the chair the Public Prosecution of Taiz to intervene to suspend the execution.
Chair of the Public Prosecution of Taiz Badar Al-Aredah told the chairman of Seyaj, in a phone call, that the sentence was suspended, stressing that the prosecution will do to enhance justice and rule of law.
A representative of Seyaj in Taiz, Ali Al-Sarari, pointed out that prisoners of the central prison of Taiz expressed joy after the sentence suspended.
Seyaj's Monitoring and Advocacy Centre had been contacted by Human Rights Watch, told that a juvenile faced the capital punishment and asked to move forward to save the juvenile.
Haza'a was accused in 1999 of killing a Yemeni man and he was sentenced to pay a blood money in 2000, but an appeal court changed the sentence to a death sentence without taking into consideration his documents of birth and identity cards that confirm that he was under the legal age when he was charged with the crime, as Haza'a stresses.
Seyaj affirms that it will do best to promote justice through providing legal advocacy for children in the framework of an advocacy project executed in collaboration with UNICEF, the EU and the Yemeni Ban Association. --
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