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SANAA, Yemen (UPI) – Arab legislators meeting in Yemen lamented that constitutions in their countries are merely “ink on paper” in view of rampant violations of human rights.
In a statement released Thursday at the end of their two-day meeting in Sanaa, the Arab parliamentarians complained that Arab regimes lacked the basic mechanisms for transparency and accountability which are necessary to secure proper rule….
For his part, Yemeni parliamentarian Abdo Hazifi noted that accountability necessitates social awareness, stressing that “the Yemeni experience is newborn and still limited to theory, not practice.”
Yes in practice, the political system in Yemen is more a monarchy, a kleptocracy, a dictatorship. But for certain not a democracy.
Another repressive law Hassan Mujali, the attorney for the chamber, told al-Sahwa.net that the law violated Yemeni businessmen’s rights, and was unconstitutional and modeled on a similar law issued in the former southern Yemen in 1969. “The law’s articles violate privacy under the pretext of searching for evidence to prove tax evasion,” the lawyer said. He appealed to Yemeni businessmen not to abide by the sales tax law.
