Post Election Yemeni Regime Targets Opposition
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SANA’A, Oct. 11 — The Public Forces Union Party asked for the release fo Ali Hussain Al-Dilami, director of the Yemeni Organization for the Defense of Public Rights and Liberties and member of the union party.
The statement said such conduct would create a bad impression about the post-election period, asking for Al-Dilami’s immediate release.
A number of opposition parties asked authorities to release Al-Dilami, as the arrest is against human rights ensured in the constitution.
Similarly, a number of organizations interested in human rights, denounced Al-Dilami’s arrest.
Al-Dilami was arrested in Sana’a Airport when he was in his way to Denmark among a delegation, representing Yemeni civic society organizations.
News Yemen: The Coalition of Civil Society Organizations, human rights advocators and politicians called for a sit-in outside the office of the General Prosecution asking for the release of Ali Al-Dailami, the executive director of the National Organization for Defending Rights and Freedoms.
The lawyer Ali Al-Dailami was arrested by the security authorities last Monday at Sana’a airport as he was traveling abroad to participate in an event.
The coalition said the sit-in would be on Monday outside the office of the general prosecutor.
The Amnesty International expressed its worries about the detention of al-Dailami in a mysterious place ad said that means disrespect of laws and international treaties which Yemen is one signatory.
Amnesty Calls for Release:
Amnesty International called for Yemeni authorities to reveal the location where Ali Al-Dailami, Executive Director of Yemen Organization for Defending Rights and Freedoms, is detained. They demanded authorities release Al-Dailami.The call comes within a week of Al-Dailami’s arrest at the Sana’a Airport on Oct. 10 when he was heading for Denmark, along with other Yemeni NGO representatives.
Amnesty International demanded Al-Dailami be released immediately without any restriction or condition, as he has been detained for struggling to promote human rights in the country. They say there is no clear reason why Al-Dailami is detained besides his work with human rights activities.
Al-Dailami launched a campaign on the behalf of his brother, Yahya Al-Dailami, a religious scholar, who was sentenced to death on May 29, 2005 following an unjust trial. The courts then reduced the sentence and freed the scholar.
The Amnesty International statement want authorities to allow Al-Dailami to appoint a lawyer, visit his relatives and have an access to healthcare. It expressed concern about the mistreatment of the human rights activist who has been jailed in an isolated prison and they worry he might face torture and mistreatment.
“Al-Dailami seems to be a prisoner of opinion, who has been detained for his human rights-related activities,” Amnesty International stated.
Al-Dailami’s NGO released a statement on Friday expressing concern about the fate of its executive director who was held by security authorities while he was planning to travel to Copenhagen to participate in human rights activities and workshops.
The statement said Al-Dailami’s participation comes as part of a partnership program with civil community organizations, affiliated with the Danish Institute for Human Rights. It added the political security manager at the Sana’a Airport prevented Al-Dailami from flying to Denmark and arrested him without any legal justification.
According to the statement, the political security manager confirmed to relatives of the prisoner that he doesn’t know why he was captured, however, he said that Al-Dailami was wanted by political authorities.
The statement indicated Al-Dailami was arrested at 1:00 p.m. last Monday and transferred to a microbus with a police plate and three security officers on board.
“What raises much concern is that political security authorities refuse to reveal the location where Al-Dailami is detained and say that they know nothing about him,” the statement argued.
Amnesty International condemned all these conducts, which it described as barbaric abuses against citizen’s rights. It urged official parties, namely President Saleh, to release Al-Dailami and punish perpetrators who commit such violations. Also, it called on all local, regional and international human rights groups and organizations to express solidarity with the inmate and take action to secure his release.
News Yemen
Tens of representatives of civil society organizations, journalists, MPs and journalists called upon the general prosecutor to immediate release of Ali al-Dailami, the human rights activist whom security forces arrested last Monday at the Sana’a airport.
The demonstrators marched to the Political Security Organization and hand over a letter asking for al-Dailami release or referring him to justice if he was guilty.
The secretary-general of the Social Democratic Forum and member of the Civil Society Organizations Coalition, Nabil Abdul-Hafiz Majid, said the political security gave them a promise to allow the family of al-Dailami to visit him in his prison.
But, Majid accused, in a statement to NewsYemen, the political security of arresting member of the Rights and Freedoms Committee in the Parliament, Ahmad Saif, for one hour while he was taking photos for demonstrators outside the office of the general prosecutor.
“Officials in the PSO refused to meet us,” said Majid, confirming that al-Dailami has not links to any terrorist cell.
Head of the Sisters Forum for Human Rights, Amal Basha, said the detention and disappearance of al-Dailami was not legal, asking for more explanation about the charge and place of al-Dailami.
