By Press TV

November 26/27, 2019 "Information Clearing House" -  Yemen has revealed information about Saudi Arabia’s involvement in the 1977 assassination of a former popular Yemeni president, who was uneasy with Riyadh’s interference in Yemen’s affairs.

Ibrahim al-Hamdi served as the head of state in former North Yemen from 1974 and 1977. He was assassinated on October 11, 1977, two days before making an unprecedented visit as a North Yemeni president to South Yemen.

In a presser on Tuesday, Brigadier Abdullah bin Amer, a senior official at the Yemeni Defense Ministry, said Sana’a was in possession of important documents that include the names of those involved in the assassination.

He added that evidence confirmed the Riyadh regime’s role in all stages of the assassination, including planning, supervising and covering up the crime.

Earlier, the alkhabaralyemeni.net  news website published excerpts of the report that outlined Riyadh’s role on the back of “credible evidence.”

Al-Hamid’s tenure saw him trying to pivot Yemen away from the Saudi kingdom and tap into his country’s oil wealth. He had also opposed the latter’s disapproval of amity between the North and South, and its attempts to bring about a war between the two, while encouraging South-based tribes to retaliate against Saudi aerial violations.