Police Arrest Gang of Kidnapping Girls [Archives:2001/07/Front Page]

Four women were arrested in a house last week at the heart of Sanaa city and they were accused, along with a group of people, of abducting and hiding girls and forcing them to have illicit relationships. The whereabouts of the kidnappers was identified after a report filed by a father whose 13 year-old daughter was snatched and tortured by the same group.
Sources revealed that the girl was found near Sanaa airport with scars on her body. Two suspect women were arrested in the same place and the police is still tracing the others.
Sources at the Criminal Department stated that police arrested an Iraqi lady called Usra Saleh Mahdi, 25, for carrying the HIV virus. She was deported from the UAE for the same reason and the Yemeni Embassy in the UAE informed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that the Iraqi woman has AIDS. She was arrested in Sanaa and it was found that she is carrying the deadly disease. Some people who were in contact with her were also arrested and it was found that they were not infected. However, they are to be subject to medical examinations every three months for 2 years.

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