The 22nd Weekly Sit-In for Illegally Detained Journalists in Yemen
The Twenty-Fourth Sit-In to Demand the Release of Alayyam Newspaper and Journalist Mohamed Almaqaleh and journalists Alsaglade and Rashid
On Tuesday 17/11/2009 hundreds of lawyers, politicians , journalists and relatives of kidnapped and forced hidden people, sit in the twenty-fourth protest in Freedom Square to demand the release of Alayyam newspaper and the release of journalist Mohamed Almaqaleh and journalists Alsaglade and Fouad Rashid, and for the lifting of the violations of Almasdar and Aldiar newspapers.
In the sit-in called by the Organization of Women Journalists Without Chains Sultan Alsamaee the parliamentary spokesman for the Movement for Justice and Change said the express of solidarity with freedom of expression, and with all the journalists against violations under scrutiny, and emphasized the importance of continuing the peaceful sit-ins in order to reach the rights and punish those who violated the rights of the people of this nation; journalists, jurists and citizens.
President of the Women Journalists Without Chains Tawakul Karman confirmed the invitation of the Governor , the President’s party and government to remember their duty to care and protect freedom of expression and press freedom, which is the most sacred duties of legal and constitutional and that they occasionally negligent when they left the most important duties and violating the most sacred rights of their citizens.
She added we are here today to announce the firm and unswerving solidarity with all fellow journalists and opinion leaders whose rights are violated to custody of opinion and publication. My dear unfortunate that there is a large room in the home of lead , gunpowder , blood, skulls and body parts, but narrows for newspapers, their editors , opinion leaders, thought, art and political activists.
She also said today, under a blackout distasteful media, and to prevent strictly to all journalists and human rights activists to attend the trial in the unconstitutional State Security Court of a group of the finest our national symbols, at the disposal of lead-ins and the movement of peaceful protest in the south and there are dozens and hundreds of their comrades in the southern provinces forcibly disappeared in the police cells of this power. We wonder today, dear brothers and sisters to when this power would be able to prevent the people of their right of peaceful expression ,of their right to protest and claim their rights? How long the power will go in their way putting their heads in the sand ignoring the fact that there is the issue of South and South need the recognition and speedy and responsible resolution and not oppression, murder, imprisonment and terror.
She emphasized that a group of the pioneers of the word whom we defend them with our colleagues here in Liberty Square are in trial., They are Salah Alsagalde, Fuad Rashid, and Ahmed Alzubairi Their accusation is that they had covered th event of the southern movement in press. They wrote about the suffering of the South by corruption, looting and feeds. They published articles and news on their Web sites . She also mentioned the suffering of Mohammed Almaqaleh , Alayyam and Almasdar newspaper.
She said that in the twenty-fourth protest for the freedom of expression we send a message to President Ali Abdullah Saleh, and send a message to the President of the National Security Alanesi, and send a message to the President of the PSO to execute our demands.
In the protest Naif Alqans official spokesman of JMP,and the editor of Almasdar Sameer Jobran said;
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God bless them and give them strength. I don’t know how they do it for 22 weeks in a row, but when its your friend, its hard to turn away. That much I know.
