The UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) militia has executed a man accused of murdering a livestock trader in Zinjibar district, the capital of Abyan province.
Local sources confirmed that the Security Belt militia executed Nayef al-Hindi from Nesab district in Shabwah province, on charges of running over and killing livestock merchant Jaloud Abdullah al-Jawfi in Lawdar district.
The sources explained that the militia carried out the execution without any judicial decision or any legal procedures handing out the verdict.
The execution came after the leaders of the STC sent condolences for the death of the livestock trader.
The extrajudicial execution was condemned locally in Abyan, with journalist Talal Lazraq describing it as “barbarism and extremism that threatens to take away the legal right of the victim’s relatives.”