SANAA, Yemen — A court operating under Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Saturday sentenced 17 people to death for allegedly spying on behalf of Israel, the United States and Saudi Arabia, rebel media said.

The Houthis’ Saba news agency said the court in the capital Sanaa had sentenced the 17 individuals in cases relating to “espionage cells within a spy network affiliated with the American, Israeli and Saudi intelligence.”

It said they were sentenced to be executed by firing squad.

Lawyer Abdulbasit Ghazi, representing some of the defendants, said on Facebook that they can appeal the sentence.

The charges included “colluding with foreign nations in a state of enmity with Yemen during the 2024-2025 period, namely Saudi Arabia, Britain and America and spying for their interests through officers from those countries and from the Israeli Mossad”........

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