Al-Qubaisi to “Yemen Monitor”: Houthi Death Sentences are Political Blackmail and Crimes Without Legal Cover

Yemen Monitor / Newsroom / Marib:

Sheikh Hassan Al-Qubaisi, a member of the government negotiation team, stated that the team is heading toward a new round of negotiations in Jordan to complete discussions regarding the file of prisoners and detainees. He expressed hope that this round would yield practical responses beyond media statements and achieve tangible progress in this humanitarian issue that affects thousands of Yemeni families.

In an exclusive statement to “Yemen Monitor,” Al-Qubaisi explained that the upcoming round will focus on completing and reviewing name lists. He emphasized that the government delegation approaches this file with a sense of national and humanitarian responsibility, exerting all possible efforts to reach positive outcomes that alleviate the suffering of prisoners and their kin. He added that the government team places the prisoner issue at the top of its priorities as a humanitarian matter that brooks no compromise or procrastination.

Regarding the death sentences recently issued by the Houthi militia coinciding with the negotiation path, Al-Qubaisi stressed that these verdicts are purely political and have no relation to law or the judiciary. He described them as “pre-packaged and ready-made rulings” dressed in a false judicial cover to justify a full-fledged political crime.

He further added that the timing of these sentences clearly reveals their true objective: exercising political pressure and blackmail over the negotiations, particularly concerning the prisoner and detainee file. He asserted that these measures lack any legal, human rights, or moral standing, reflecting the use of justice as a tool for repression and the settling of political scores.

Al-Qubaisi emphasized that the government team condemns and rejects these rulings in their entirety as a blatant attempt to influence the course of negotiations and use the lives of innocents as political leverage. He maintained that such practices will not change the government delegation’s firm stance toward the rights of prisoners and detainees, nor will they deter its efforts to resolve this humanitarian file in accordance with international law and standards.