HC Deb 11 January 1988 vol 125 c39W
Mr. Corbyn

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he will make representations to the President Praesidium of the Supreme People's Council of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen to seek clemency for the 35 people that have been sentenced to death in connection with the attempted coup.

Mr. Mellor

On behalf of the Twelve, the EC Presidency representative in Aden made a demarche on humanitarian grounds to the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen authorities on behalf of the five people in detention whose death sentences were ratified. However, we now understand that those five were executed soon after that ratification.

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