Muftah Attacked and Detained
A statement Of the Aggression on the Scholar Mohammed Moftah, and Demanding Releasing Him.
Yemen Organization of Defending Rights and Freedom is denouncing the violation that he was exposed to the Zaidien Scholar Mohammed Meftah from the Central security’s men, on 28 th December 2007, and detain him in the Security of Sana’a province, in Raodha St till moment.
The men of Central Security attached his car after his participation in commemorate the Ghadeer in the Hatarish area in Bani Heshesh. They tried to beat him, but the National Security intervenes not to, some of National Security men were injured defending scholar Mohammed Meftah’s safety.
The Organization send the National Security their regards, in the same time the Organization denounced the Central Security reacts, and demand all the Orgs and Institutions that concerned in Human Rights to intervene in releasing him immediately and exert pressure on making a fair investigation in that occurrence, as the Org demanding all the Orgs and Institutions to make a stable and serious position toward these detentions that threaten the freedom of expressions and religion to the generation of Zaidism believers, these threatens that conflict with the lows and roles and international agreements that accepted from Republic of Yemen.
Published of Yemen Org of Defending Rights and Democratic Freedoms.
Thursday 27th December 2007.
Amnesty International Year End Report 2006: • Zaidi clerics Yahia al-Dailami and Mohamed Miftah, both outspoken critics of the US-led invasion of Iraq, were released in May apparently after receiving presidential pardons. The former had been sentenced to death after an unfair trial in 2005, the sentence later being commuted by the President to a prison term. The latter had been serving an eight-year prison term. Both were prisoners of conscience. Muhammad ‘Ali Luqman, a Zaidi judge serving a 10-year prison sentence, was also pardoned by the President and released in May.
