Armies of Liberation

Jane Novak's blog about Yemen

Yemeni Opposition Spokesman Kidnapped, Beaten, Threatened

Filed under: JMP, Security Forces, political violence — by Jane Novak at 11:19 am on Tuesday, November 3, 2009

This is President Ali Saleh’s version of dialog with the opposition.

News Yemen: The Joint Meeting Parties (JMP), opposition coalition, condemned in a press statement on Sunday the kidnapping and harassment against its spokesperson Naif al-Qanis….Telling the story from the Science and Technology Hospital in the capital Sana’a, the assaulted al-Qanis told Al-Masdar: “Some gunmen kidnapped me to Hamadan district and cruelly hit me and broke my right hand and after that they threw me in the street. A taxi driver found me and took me to hospital.” Al-Qanis said the assailants were beating him and repeat “shut up the Joint Meeting Parties…You are licentious…You go beyond your limit”.

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