YJS Postpones Conference, Sami Ghalib Resigns from Freedom Committee
YJS postpones general conference
SANA’A, Sep. 29 (Saba)- The Yemeni Journalists Syndicate (YJS) announced on Monday the postponement of its general conference scheduled 24 November to 20 December.
In a press release, the YJS’s council justified the postponement to participate in meetings of the 11th General Conference of the Union of Arab Journalists and receive from Finance Ministry a budget of the 4th Conference of YJS.
Meanwhile, the council accepted the resignation of Sami Ghaleb as chairman of the Committee of Freedoms in the council.
Statement of Sami Ghaleb September 16, 2008:
A statement of the Syndicate’s chairman said that the syndicate council is seeking for a special amnesty for the imprisoned Journalist Abdulkareem Al-Khaiwani from the Yemeni president.. Ghalib Said: I disagree with that. What we know in the syndicate is that we are asking to stop the continuous targeting of our colleague, and release him, he had been imprisoned according illegal procedures. His sentence was modified later to ensure that he stayed in the prison.. It is incorrect for the syndicate chairman to say that wee are seeking for a special amnesty for Al-khaiwani, because that means we are accept the charges against him. I produced my resignation from the freedom committee because I am not able to meet the requirements of the committee because of the absence of the cohesion within the council of the syndicate about the violations against press freedom in Yemen.
