Parliament Lifts Yahya al-Houthi’s Immunity
Does that mean his 17 year old son, who was recently arrested, doesn’t have immunity any more either?
almotamar.net - Yemen parliament approved Wednesday a move lifting MP Yahya al-Houthi’s immunity with sweeping majority. The September.net website quoted parliamentary source as saying that the number of MPs accepted the move amounted to 194 out of 220 parliament members who attended the session while four MP abstained from voting.
Not even commenting on if any of the following charges against al-Houthi are true, what I find striking about the list is that these offenses are perpetrated every day in Yemen by those with a different fundamentalist ideology, ie, what they are accusing Yahya of is spreading an idea by teaching young people and talking to the media.
Also the regime (which is hotly crying about foreign interference and support of the Houthis) is bizarrely hypocritical when you consider it’s stance toward Iraq: the Yemeni regime undermines the legitimacy of the duly elected Iraqi government, praises those who use violence to attack and destabalize Iraq, gives a platform to those (like al-Dhari) to forment sedition against the Iraqi regime, finds it legal fior Yemenis to murder Iraqis, hosts the Iraqi Baathist resistance leaders, and some officials utilize the power of the Yemeni state provide material support for those who are trying to destabilize Iraq. Yes, when people elect a government, the elected government should have a monoply on the use of force and outsiders who disagree have no place in destabilizing the government. Saleh claims Yemen’s soverignty is being violated by meddling foreign forces and then he praises the Iraqi reisistance, kisses al-Dahari and turns a blind eye to the Yemenia flights filled with teenagers bent on murder.
Back to Yahya:
Almotamar.net - Report by the Yemeni parliamentary committee of constitutional and legal affairs issued about the proposal of lifting parliamentary immunity from Yahya Badrudin al-Houthi mentioned he is one of the members of the leadership of a Safavite terrorist organisation established in 1999 and started its activity hostile to the state through polarization of young persons and educating them with organizational, intellectual and political lessons. The organisation also instigates them against the republican system and the call for Caliphate as exclusive right to certain families. It also directs them to lower the national flag from flag posts of some public schools to raise instead of it the yellow-coloured flag of the organisation, to abandon the greeting to the national flag and to have the organisation slogan instead.
The organisation also urges to not pay the zakat to the state as it is illegitimate, as they say and formation of armed militias the report mentioned that Yahya al-Houthi used his house in the capital Sana’a for holding meetings of the leadership of the organisation with foreign delegations as well as for television and radio and press interviews in which he made accusations against the state and he then left the country while continued his contacts with foreign countries and parties with the aim of internationalization of the sedition in Saada in addition to his contacts with those who call themselves the opposition outside.
The report reviewed before the parliament on Monday added that al-Houthi has become active in the leadership of the Safavite organisation in the call for the imamate rule by using all possible means and the adoption of the Faqih sovereign, fomenting mutiny against the ruler, dissemination the spirit of sectarianism by taking advantage of the Zaidi sect as an umbrella for the promotion for those ideas, also the instigation of citizens against the state measures and the spread of rumours offending the national regime in order to create a social resentment against the situations in Yemen.
At the end of the report the constitutional committee called on the parliament to accept lifting the parliamentary immunity from MP al-Houthi so that the judicial sides are able to complete their measures.
What a bunch of rubbish.
