13-06-2025 03:43 PM Jerusalem Timing

Saleh Leaves Hospital, Stays in Saudi Arabia

Saleh Leaves Hospital, Stays in Saudi Arabia

The Yemeni president left the military hospital after receiving the necessary treatment and was taken to a temporary residence for a recovery period

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has left hospital in Riyadh, two months after he was badly wounded in a bomb attack as his forces waged a deadly crackdown on protesters but he will stay for recovery period in Saudi Arabia, a Saudi official said on Sunday.
  
"The Yemeni president left the military hospital this (Saturday) evening at 9 pm (1800 GMT) after receiving the necessary treatment and was taken to a temporary residence for a recovery period," the Saudi official told AFP.
  
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, did not say how long Saleh would stay on in the kingdom, which neighbors Yemen where an uprising against his rule broke out at the end of January.
  
Yemen's junior information minister, Abdo al-Janadi, declined to confirm Saleh's release from hospital, saying the president was "following his treatment" in the Saudi capital. "When his doctors allow him to return, he will return," Janadi said.
  
Saleh was admitted to a Saudi military hospital a day after the June 3 attack on a mosque in his presidential compound in Sanaa. Eleven people were killed and 124 others wounded, among them senior officials.
  
An informed Yemeni source in Riyadh said Saleh was now convalescing in a Saudi government palace. "Saleh has left hospital after his health conditions improved and is staying at the Conferences Palace in Riyadh, but he still has problems with his legs," he told AFP, requesting anonymity.