Suspects call trial unfair

Aden - Five Britons charged with terrorist offences in Yemen were yesterday forced into a court room at gunpoint after protesting…

Aden - Five Britons charged with terrorist offences in Yemen were yesterday forced into a court room at gunpoint after protesting they were not receiving a fair trial, Rory Carroll reports. The suspects refused to leave a cell beneath the court during a 10-minute recess, but soldiers jostled them out and up steps into the dock. They shouted they had just been beaten and relatives screamed for them to be left alone.

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