A Yemeni prisoner sentenced to death and imprisoned since 1999 demanded that he be buried in the prison yard in his last will, without explaining why.
Prisoner Mohamed Taher Samoom, 37, said in a post on his official Facebook account, "My will, if God forbids and I am executed, I do not want my body to leave prison, because I lived in life for 13 years and 4 months, and the rest of my life I spent in prison."
"I want to stay there until the day they are resurrected, and the goal is a purpose in myself that I want to spend and tell God about the day he resurrects me hopefully," he said.
Samum was convicted of killing his friend, and his post received wide and great interaction on social media platforms in Yemen, calling on the guardians of blood from the family of Beit Al-Hujaili to pardon him and free his neck, saying, "His case was by mistake and pardon from the adult Sheem."
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In December 2022, Samoom posted an explanatory post on Facebook, stating that his death sentence was issued by the Court of First Instance and Appeal and the sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court, and in 2010 the execution of the sentence was suspended due to his entry into the young prison, and attached a set of photos as a young child.
He explained that human rights organizations intervened in his case and followed it, and after communicating with the previous Yemeni government under the regime of the late Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, and then former Yemeni President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, it was decided to reconsider the case.
In the same publication, he appealed to the family of the deceased to pardon him for God's sake, as the incident was a mistake, noting that all the investigation procedures in which he changed his statements were the result of his young age and at the behest of his uncles.
Yemeni lawyer Ahsan Ra'dan explained that there is a defect in the laws, and it is assumed that one of the drops of retribution is if the convict spends 10 years in detention without implementing it, because if retribution is carried out on the convict, he is thus punished with two penalties, an unconvicted penalty, which is 10 years imprisonment and the penalty of retribution sentenced.
"It is not permissible to combine the two penalties, and if the 10 years end without the execution of the retribution sentence, the prisoner is obliged to pay blood money and is released," he said. He considered that what happened is the result of the absence of life imprisonment in Yemeni laws, but it is implemented in reality and this is in violation of the constitution and laws that stipulate that there is no punishment except by a text.