A Yemeni court issued a death sentence today, Monday, against a young man after he was convicted of killing a woman in a shopping center in Aden, southern Yemen. The ruling by the Al-Mansoura Primary Court convicted the defendant, Mohsen Rashad Mohsen, of the deliberate murder of the victim, Fatima Mohammed Omar Surour, and sentenced him to death by firing squad, with the execution to be carried out in a public place. The ruling also mandated the defendant to bear all prosecution costs.
The twenty-year-old Fatima was stabbed, with one of the wounds hitting her eye, at the hands of her colleague Mohsen, who worked with her at the shopping center in the Al-Mansoura district, about a week ago. After the crime, the young man fled but was apprehended by citizens the following day and handed over to police.
According to local sources, the young man admitted in early confessions that the motive behind this horrific crime that shocked public opinion was "emotional." He indicated that he had tried to propose to the victim, but she rejected him, leading him to decide later to kill her due to her refusal, and he committed the crime in cold blood.
