Yemen Post-Election Targets Opposition
Its so bizarre they think anyone will buy the story that suddenly the regime is concerned for journalists rights when over 50 journalists were targeted last year without any redress through the judicial system. Its flat out targeting of oppositionist Hamid al-Ahmar under the guise of protecting journalists and its even funnier that some verbal threat is drawing all this attention when journalists in Yemen in the last year have been kidnapped, beaten up, stabbed, shot at, letter bombed and had *their kids* threatened. Paw widdle al-Shater had someone yell at him on the phone. Awww….
al-Motamar: SANA’A- Assistant Secretary-General of the General People’s Congress (GPC), Sheikh Sultan al-Barakani, expressed wonder at MP Hamid al-Amer’s flagrant mistake as he threatened to kill editor-in-chief of 26 September newspaper Ali Hassan al-Shater.
Al-Barakani praised the behavior of al-Shater as he decided to resort to justice and calling on the Yemeni Journalists Syndicate (YJS) as well as civil society organizations to protect freedoms and rights of people.
The 22 May weekly newspaper quoted al-Barakani as saying, “We didn’t expect that a member of the Parliament would commit a gross mistake as that of Hamid al-Ahmer who infringed the law. It would have been more suitable if al-Ahmer had resorted to justice over the poem published by the 26 September newspaper instead of threatening to kill al-Shater.”
Did Hamid al-Ahmer, al-Barakani went on to say, want to make those who believe in the civilized state repeat the saying “if I belong to a powerful tribe, then my camels can’t not be seized?”.
Al-Barakani concluded his statements by saying “I don’t think the anti-law waves would triumph after the Yemeni people elected President Ali Abdullah Saleh.”
