Yemen lawmaker on open hunger strike, as MPs go on sit-in tomorrow
Yemen lawmaker on open hunger strike, as MPs go on sit-in tomorrow
By Abdullah A. Qaid- For Armies of Liberation
Sana’a, Sunday, 4 July, 2010- Mr. Ahmed Saif Hashid, Yemen lawmaker, launches today morning an open hunger strike and sit-in inside the House of Representatives.
Hashid told Armies of Liberation “I have gone on open hunger strike because the Presidency of the House frequently prevented me from visiting prisons and confiscated my right to question ministers”. “It neglected my calls as my parliamentary immunity has been violated by the State Security Court”, he added.
Reportedly, some Yemeni MPs plan to go on a sit-in tomorrow morning inside the Parliament for solidarity with their colleague and protest against the presidency of the House.
Hashid went on a under surveillance of the State Security Court. The Criminal Court (State Security Court) listed his name, among other activists, in its indictment in case No. 117, 2009 and asking the National Security to “investigate and collect information about them, edit records of collecting evidences, and transfer the outcomes to it” in the background of two visits were paid by them in 2008 to Hajja and Dhamar prisons to conduct human rights investigations.
