{"id":1963613,"date":"2007-07-27T18:40:47","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T10:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/?p=1963613"},"modified":"2023-04-13T05:32:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T05:32:18","slug":"child-in-yemen-facing-execution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/2007\/07\/27\/child-in-yemen-facing-execution\/","title":{"rendered":"Child in Yemen facing execution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Tahoma\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" align=\"left\" width=\"121\" src=\"http:\/\/www1.ocn.ne.jp\/~infinite\/images\/Yemen.gif\" height=\"92\" \/>YEMEN :&#160; The Parliament of Children appealed to president Ali Abdllah Saleh, head of the High Judiciary Council and Minister of Justice to stop a death penalty against the juvenile child <strong>Walid Haikal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In their petition, members of the Children Parliament said Walid was only 15 years when he committed the crime.<br \/>\n&#8220;We appeal to you to mercifully and fairly look to this case according to international conventions, especially the children right convention, which Yemen has signed,&#8221; said the petition. It said the convention disallows the execution of a child under 18 years.<\/p>\n<p>The trial of Walid Haikal, convicted of a murder crime, lasted seven years, according to the petition.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Tahoma\">This brings the total on children worldwide known to face execution to&#160;80:&#160;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/the_row.aspx\" rel=\"noopener\">74 in Iran<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/oc_row.aspx\" rel=\"noopener\">3 in Saudi Arabia, 2 in&#160; Sudan<\/a>, 1 in Yemen, all Islamic countries.&#160;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Yemen News<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsyemen.net\/en\/view_news.asp?sub_no=3_2007_07_25_6771\"><em>http:\/\/www.newsyemen.net\/en\/view_news.asp?sub_no=3_2007_07_25_6771<\/em><\/a>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Tahoma\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" align=\"left\" width=\"121\" src=\"http:\/\/www1.ocn.ne.jp\/~infinite\/images\/Yemen.gif\" height=\"92\" \/>YEMEN :&#160; The Parliament of Children appealed to president Ali Abdllah Saleh, head of the High Judiciary Council and Minister of Justice to stop a death penalty against the juvenile child <strong>Walid Haikal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In their petition, members of the Children Parliament said Walid was only 15 years when he committed the crime.<br \/>\n&#8220;We appeal to you to mercifully and fairly look to this case according to international conventions, especially the children right convention, which Yemen has signed,&#8221; said the petition. It said the convention disallows the execution of a child under 18 years.<\/p>\n<p>The trial of Walid Haikal, convicted of a murder crime, lasted seven years, according to the petition.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Tahoma\">This brings the total on children worldwide known to face execution to&#160;80:&#160;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/the_row.aspx\" rel=\"noopener\">74 in Iran<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/oc_row.aspx\" rel=\"noopener\">3 in Saudi Arabia, 2 in&#160; Sudan<\/a>, 1 in Yemen, all Islamic countries.&#160;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Yemen News<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsyemen.net\/en\/view_news.asp?sub_no=3_2007_07_25_6771\"><em>http:\/\/www.newsyemen.net\/en\/view_news.asp?sub_no=3_2007_07_25_6771<\/em><\/a>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[17,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1963613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5196320,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963613\/revisions\/5196320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1963613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1963613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1963613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}