Miraculous escape from execution for teenage inmate turned lawyer

Headline Title: Miraculous escape from execution for teenage inmate turned lawyer 27 March 2014 The first time Hafez Ibrahim faced a firing squad was in 2005. He was taken to a small yard in a Yemeni prison and brought before a row of officers with rifles in hand. He thought that moment would be his last.Hafez had written a will. His only thought was of the trauma his mother would suffer when she heard the news of his execution.But just before he was about to be shot, he was taken back to his cell, with no explanation.“I was lost, I did not understand what was happening. I later…

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