The Purge of Southern Journalists Continues
Political Security authorities raided the house of Dhaif Alsoolani, the editor of the Adengulf.net web site and arrested his younger brother and two of his relatives on Sunday Jan-31-2010 in Aden.
The raid occurred within the ferocious campaign against journalists and southern political activists and their families. Authorities arrested Alsoolani’s younger brother Saleh Hussein Alsoolani 25 years, and his relatives Salah Al-ganhi 19-yeara and Ali Al-ganhi 15 years. They were taken and confined to the Political Security Prison (Alfateh).
According to our sources there, the security soldiers beat the detainees with rifle butts.
Within the last year, Yemeni security authorities raided the homes and arrested of many southern journalists and confined them to the prisons in Sana’a. Currently held are Salah Al-sakldi’ detained since April of last year and Salah Rashed editor of Almukla press .com Also Hesham Basharaheel editor of Al-Ayyam daily, along with his two sons. Journalist Ahmed Al-rabeezi and a hundred of the southern political activists been in prison more in one year without trial.
