Yemeni Govt Breaks Up Pro-Media Freedom Protest
Women Journalists Without Chains Condemns Oppression of its Sit In in Liberty Square and Attacks on its Activists, and Calls for Solidarity
Women Journalists Without Chains Condemned the behavior of the Ministry of Interior as it did on Tuesday 6 – October -2009 when it prevented journalists and civil society activists from their protest in solidarity with the Al-Ayyam newspaper, and to demand the release of journalist Mohamed Maqaleh and the attack on president of the organization Tawakul Kerman and the coordinator of unit of rights and freedoms of the Organization, Lubna Alqadasi when they started the photography and raising the banners and also the breaking of the camera of the organization.
The Organization accused the Ministry of Interior and the security personnel for the oppression of protest and the confiscation of the constitutional right of protestors and considered it a crime, it calls for the Attorney General to do his duty to investigate and to report to the aggressors the voice of justice and the law reaches them .
Recalling the Ministry of the Interior that the peaceful sit-ins did not need permission or prior authorization and the duty to protect those who exercise their peaceful activities instead of oppressing them, the organization confirmed its intention to sue the Minister of Interior and the security personnel who attacked the demonstrators and stood against their right to assembly and free expression. The organization confirms its firm intention to continue to organize the weekly sit-ins in Liberty Square till the publication of Al-ayyam newspaper , release of journalist Mohamed Maqaleh, and journalists Fuad Rashid, and Salah Alsagaldee. .
It also calls on all journalists and civil society activists and human rights advocates to participate in the sit-ins also calls on political parties for solidarity with the organization and condemn the attack of its activists.
Issued by the Organization of Women Journalists Without Chains
6 – October – 2009
