The NDC’s Presidential Board suspended conference activities on Saturday to allow NDC members to condemn and protest the recent targeted killings of two young Yemeni men, Khaled Muhammad Al-Khateeb, 22, and Hassan Jafar Aman, 20.

In a statement, the Presidential Board strongly condemned the crime, while also urging security authorities to shoulder their responsibilities, arrest the killers and bring them to justice.

“Such a heinous crime is unacceptable to everyone but will not hinder the NDC’s efforts to build a modern state in which all citizens must be treated equally by the law,” read the statement.

This morning, NDC members from all working groups refused to enter meeting rooms, and staged a demonstration in the lobby area of Sana’a’s Movenpick Hotel to condemn the recent killing and the continued occurrence of such crimes.

The demonstrating members chanted slogans and called on Interior Minister Abdulqader Qahtan to show up at the hotel and account for his failure to apprehend the suspected killers, who serve as bodyguards for a tribal elder.

Meanwhile, other NDC members demanded that the carrying of guns inside the capital city and other main Yemeni cities be outlawed.

Among the placards which were held up were those reading ‘Bring to justice and punish the killers of the martyrs Al-Khateeb and Aman’ and ‘Shame on any NDC member who hides or protects a killer’.

The two young men were reportedly killed by gunmen in Sana’a’s Bait Baws district, in the capital city’s south. The killing coincided with a wedding procession in the area.