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Yemeni judge orders that 'disappeared' US citizen be produced in court
Source: The Guardian
Yemeni judge orders that 'disappeared' US citizen be produced in court
Spencer Ackerman in New York
theguardian.com, Wednesday 25 June 2014 20.01 BST
A Yemeni judge has ordered the country's attorney general to produce a US citizen whose lawyers claim is a disappeared person.
Sharif Mobley, a US citizen arrested in Yemen in 2010 on since-dropped terrorism charges, has not been in contact with his lawyers since February 27. The Yemeni government denies that Mobley has been disappeared and is charging him with murder.
But according to Mobley's lawyers, with the UK-based human rights group Reprieve, Yemeni judge Abdelwali al-Shaabani has instructed attorney general Ali Alwash to bring Mobley to court for the next session in Mobley's trial, currently scheduled for August 20.
Mobley, from New Jersey, was not in court on Wednesday. He was also absent from a June 11 court hearing, and his wife has written to Barack Obama urging presidential intervention in the case.
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Spencer Ackerman in New York
theguardian.com, Wednesday 25 June 2014 20.01 BST
A Yemeni judge has ordered the country's attorney general to produce a US citizen whose lawyers claim is a disappeared person.
Sharif Mobley, a US citizen arrested in Yemen in 2010 on since-dropped terrorism charges, has not been in contact with his lawyers since February 27. The Yemeni government denies that Mobley has been disappeared and is charging him with murder.
But according to Mobley's lawyers, with the UK-based human rights group Reprieve, Yemeni judge Abdelwali al-Shaabani has instructed attorney general Ali Alwash to bring Mobley to court for the next session in Mobley's trial, currently scheduled for August 20.
Mobley, from New Jersey, was not in court on Wednesday. He was also absent from a June 11 court hearing, and his wife has written to Barack Obama urging presidential intervention in the case.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/25/yemeni-judge-orders-disappeared-us-citizen-sharif-mobley
