Yemen opens trial for 13 people charged with spying for CIA, Israel
A court in Yemen has commenced the trial of 13 individuals on charges of operating a spy network for the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Israel's Mossad spy agency.
The defendants were formally presented with the indictment during Saturday’s session of Yemen’s Specialized Criminal Court in the capital, Sana’a.
According to the indictment, the case involves “a spy network affiliated with the US Central Intelligence Agency.” The group operated from 1987 to 2024, coordinating with US and Israeli intelligence agencies, according to the prosecutors.
They are charged with gathering military, political, security, economic, and social information under the guise of development and humanitarian projects.
The indictment also says that the group recruited officials for foreign agencies and submitted proposals that benefited "the enemy."
Prosecutors said that the individuals engaged in activities that undermined Yemen’s independence, unity, and defense capabilities.
During the hearing, the defendants responded to the charges and requested access to case files. The court postponed further review of the evidence to the next session.
This trial follows a ruling last month in which Yemeni judges sentenced 17 people to death for spying for Israel and its Western allies. Two others received 10-year prison terms, while one defendant was acquitted, bringing the total number tried in that case to 20.
Yemeni prosecutors said that those defendants were charged with “espionage for foreign countries hostile to Yemen,” including the United States, Israel, and the United Kingdom.
In early November, Yemen’s Interior Ministry announced that security forces had dismantled a spy network jointly operated by the CIA, Mossad, and Saudi Arabia’s General Intelligence Presidency.
Authorities reported that the network functioned through small, autonomous cells that gathered sensitive information on critical infrastructure, military sites, weapons production facilities, and locations used for ballistic missile and drone launches by Yemeni armed forces.
Yemen has stepped up its intelligence investigations since the US and Britain started conducting joint airstrikes against the country in support of the Israeli regime amid the genocidal war on Gaza.
Yemen’s armed forces launched a months-long campaign of missile attacks against the occupied territories and Israeli-affiliated shipping in the Red Sea weeks after the war began in October 2023.
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