Local sources said that gunmen assassinated the leader of the Yemeni Congregation for Reform (the largest Islamist party in Yemen), Zia al-Haq al-Ahdal, while he was leaving his home in the center of Taiz on Saturday morning.
The sources indicated that gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on Al-Ahdal, after he left his house on Jamal Street in Taiz;
Which led to his death instantly.
Al-Ahdal - in addition to his political activity - is a leader in the Popular Resistance Council in Taiz Governorate, and is responsible for the file of prisoners. He was also one of the youth leaders in the revolution against the regime of Ali Abdullah Saleh in 2011.
During the past years, assassinations of leaders of the Islah party in Yemen were repeated.
A leader in the Islah Party in Yemen recently blamed Abu Dhabi for the assassinations, arrests, kidnappings and torture of a large number of party leaders and other parties and groups. He said that they are not in agreement with Abu Dhabi's policies that it tried to implement in Yemen, which Abu Dhabi did not comment on.