Armies of Liberation

The National:

The Yemeni state security court in the capital sentenced Hussein Muthana al Akil, a professor at Aden University, to three years in prison for supporting the growing secessionist movement. Fadi Hasan Ba’om, the son of a senior leader in the movement, was given five years for calling for the separation of southern Yemen, instigating civil disorder and violent acts and inciting sectarian division and hatred among the Yemeni people.

The sentences were the latest setback for the southern movement, which is facing increasing pressure from the embattled Yemeni government in Sana’a.

Judge Ridhwan al Namir said al Akil was guilty of publishing “false information and inciting an armed disobedience and committing crimes aimed at harming national unity as well as abusing the president of the republic”. The court said al Akil published articles in which he wrote that “the northern occupation forces are looting the oil of the south”. (Read on …)

Update: He worked for the very good organization, SEYAJ for the protection of children: SEYAJ Organization Condemns the assassination of Muhammad AL-Rboey one of its staff in Hajjah governorate ” a journalist and defender volunteers jurist

SEYAJ Organization for Childhood Protecting
Yemen-Sana’a- New University Sq.
Phone:009671228184
Fax:009671228145
Mobile:00967712020332
Hotline:009671257505
PO Box:5642
E-mail: info@seyaj.org
Website: www.seyaj.org

His family was attacked last Thursday by the same gang and three persons are hospitalized. They don’t do this unless they know they can get away with it. An investigative journalist killed by “a gang” that he had written about. Most criminal enterprises in Yemen are partners with state officials. Mareb Press

قتل اليوم السبت بمحافظة حجة الزميل محمد الربوعي على يد مسلحين. Was killed Saturday province argument colleague Mohamed Rabuai by gunmen. وقالت معلومات إن عصابة إجرامية أقدمت على قتل الربوعي في محافظة حجة على خلفية قضية نشر, مضيفة أن الزميل الربوعي قام بكشف الأعمال الإجرامية لتلك العصابة وتعرض لعدة تهديدات بالتصفية الجسدية. The information that a criminal gang proceeded to kill Rabuai in the province of the argument against the background of the issue of publication, adding that his colleague Rabuai reveal the criminal activities of this gang and subjected to numerous threats of physical liquidation.

وقد تلقت الأوساط الإعلامية اليمنية نبأ مقتل الزميل محمد الربوعي مراسل صحيفة القاهرة المحلية بمديرية بني قيس والذي مثل فاجعة كبيرة للأقلام الحرة بالمحافظة إثر تعرضه لاعتداء آثم من قبل عصابة فجر اليوم على خلفية قضايا نشر صحفية. Has received among the media of the killing of a fellow Yemeni Mohammad Rabuai reporter Cairo local Department Bani Qais, who represented the great tragedy of the free pens to maintain he was exposed to a vicious assault by a gang at dawn today against the background of deployment issues a press release.

Killed while in police custody in Ma’alla

Aden News Agency:

Local sources in Aden – one the largest cities in the south of Yemen- have declared that the political prisoner ( Faris Zeid Abullkareem Tamah ) was killed by the police of Al-Malla’a city in Aden, after being kept there for days, while the circumstances of his death still unknown until this moment. (Read on …)

World Bulletin

A Yemeni provincial opposition politician thought to be active in a southern separatist movement was gunned down in south Yemen, his party and local residents said on Monday.

The Yemeni Socialist Party said Saeed Ahmed Abdullah bin Daoud was shot dead on Friday in the southern town of Zanjibar in Abyan province, adding on its website that the province was in “an unprecedented state of disorder”.

Zanjibar residents said bin Daoud, a member of the Socialist party’s leadership committee in the town, was also involved with southern separatists seeking independence from the central government.

There was no immediate word on the reasons for the killing.

Several outlets and other sources are reporting the murder of former President Ali Nasser Mohammed’s nephew in a cold blooded assassination, story here at Aden Press. Clearly both retribution and a tactic of intimidation.

As the state of Yemen “teeters on the brink of failure”, the government of Yemen is scrambling to hide the unprecedented humanitarian crisis unfolding in the Sa’ada War.

Hundreds of thousands are displaced, starving and beyond the reach of aid groups. Food, water and medicine in the region are under government blockade and at critical levels. Military bombing is indiscriminate and targets inhabited homes, villages, cities as well as rebel hideouts in the mountains.

As a result of the regime’s desperate attempts to limit news reporting, citizens through out Yemen are subject to state violence, intimidation and arbitrary arrests.

Journalists are a frequent target. The independent News Yemen website was hacked in December. “According to the sites US hosting company, the IP of the hacker traces back to the director of the Internet Department in the Ministry of Telecommunication,” a News Yemen statement read. (Read on …)

Its so brutal. Click here for first hand testimony from tortured prisoners.

Amnesty International
PUBLIC STATEMENT
27 November 2009
Index: MDE 31/017/2009

Yemen: Government should announce commitment to tackle ‘widespread’ torture
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What follows is the Arab Sisters Forum press release on the escalating attacks on Amal Basha, head of the organization. She was repeatedly threatened, had a liquid sprayed in her face on the street, the headquarters was broken into and trashed, and the brakes on her car were cut in an assassination attempt.

Triggers for the attacks include advocacy for arbitrarily detained prisoners and a report on torture in Yemen submitted by several Yemeni human rights organizations to the UN which contributed to the UN’s findings on November 19th, expressing “grave concern” and calling for an investigation of unlawful killings (murder) by security forces.

Its actions like these that belie the Saleh regime’s commitment to both democracy and stability and expose the administration as a thuggish mafia whose only goals are staying in power and stealing money. (Read on …)

تواصلا للانتهاكات التي تتعرض لها صحيفة “الأيام” وناشراها رفض المسئولون في مصلحة الهجرة بعدن طلب تجديد جواز سفر تقدم به الأستاذ هشام باشراحيل رئيس تحرير صحيفة “الأيام” إليهم يطلب فيه تجديد جواز سفره الذي انتهت صلاحيته في شهر يونيو من هذا العام .
ورفض المسئولون في إدارة الهجرة والجوازات التجديد بناءً على أوامر صدرت إليهم من مدير أمن محافظة عدن العميد عبد الله عبده قيران .
ويأتي رفض التجديد تواصلا لحملة استهداف شخصية لآل باشراحيل لا تستند إلى أي نص قانوني، حيث أصدر رئيس مصلحة الهجرة والجوازات والجنسية بتاريخ 12 مايو 2009 قرارا يقضي بمنع كلا من هشام باشراحيل رئيس تحرير صحيفة “الأيام” ونجله هاني باشراحيل رئيس تحرير صحيفة “الأيام الرياضي” من مغادرة البلاد والقبض عليهما في حال ما إذا حاولوا ذلك عبر المنافذ الرسمية للبلد.
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I think President Ali Saleh is insane,a delusional dissembling megalomaniac who believes his own lies. Perhaps he’s a “borderline personality.” That would fit, considering his disconnect with reality, the perpetual claims of victimization and his complete failure to take responsibility for the outcome of any of his actions.

al Sahwa – The supreme council of the Joint Meeting Parties condemned what it called “fierce media attacks” and threats against its spokesman Naif al-Qanis.

JMP demanded that authorities to bring repeated media intimidations against its spokesman and Al-Haq party to an end, bringing the authorities responsible for al-Qanis’s safety.

JMP’s supreme council discussed arrests carried out against political activists including Moamad al-Obdil who was arrested Sunday in Aden and Abdul-Rahman al-Sharafi who was arrests on Tuesday on Sana’a, expressing its solidarity with the activists.

This is the third Southern leader killed in cold blood this year. Thousands of demonstrators were arrested and dozens killed since the movement began in 2007. On June 28, in Abyan , security opened fired on the protesters again. Yesterday, security authorities of Aden province arrested (kidnapped?) leaders, Brigadier General Ali Mohammed Al-Saadi and Brigadier General Qassim Aldaari, triggering new protests. ( English here.)Today, a cold blooded murder.

Soutanlgnoub: Friday Morning 03/07/09 Report on the assassination of Ahmad Ajam President of the National Council of Aqqan

The Occupation forces proceeded from Al-Anad, this morning to break into the house of Ali Ahmed, the president of The National Council for the liberation, independence and restoration of the South, in Aqqan – Al-Musaymar in the Lahj Governorate. They used lived ammo on him and showered his body with bullets, until he fell to his death, right in front of the eyes of his children and family members.

In response to this act, the citizens of Musaymar blocked the main road that connects Aden to Tai’z to express their anger, denunciation and condemnation of this barbaric criminal act, and demanding that those terrorists be prosecuted.

And in the mean time the armed forces of the occupation distributed heavy weapons along the Aden-Tai’z line, as well as on the hills overlooking Aqqan.

Translated: Rasha Rashed
Source: Sout al ganoub

There have been several reports of new weaponry shipped to the South in advance of the protests.

Yemen’s judiciary is a tool of political vengence.

This is the same brutal dictatorship that is now promising to solve all problems by empowering the GPC dominated local councils, but has not yet changed the electoral laws as promised in 2006.

Sahwa Net – The Supreme Council of the Joint Meeting Parties has called human rights and freedom organizations to stand against an unfair sentence of death against three of Islah’s representatives in poll centers during the presidential and local council elections held in 2006.

Khalid Nahshal, Mabkhoot Nahshal and Abdu Nahshal were sentenced to death last week on charges of killing an officer and a soldier in crossfire during the presidential and local council elections led held in 2006.

In a statement, JMP said that the sentence was a settlement of political accounts and political pressures were practiced on justice and there were several violations to judiciary.

“The sentence was issued inside the jail, not in a court and that apparent evidence of legal violations” said the statement.

A hostage might be a better term, trying to apply pressure to his father. At least he’s an adult. Sometimes they take kids 12 years old.

PUBLIC AI Index: MDE 31/006/2009 05 May 2009 UA 119/09 Incommunicado detention/Fear of torture or other ill treatment/ Possible prisoners of conscience

YEMEN Qassim ‘Askar Jubran (m), retired officer and former Yemeni ambassador

Ahmad Muhammad Ba Mu’allam (m)

Fadi Ba’oom (m)

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Aden Press is reporting that Saleh called the former president of the PDRY, Ali Salem al Beedh, and threatened to kill him.

Al Beedh left Oman and apparently is in Austria, evoking Saleh’s ire and fear. Saleh told him, we know where you are.

Sanaa today threatened physical liquidation and Albied do not retreat from the independence

Vienna – London, “Aden press,” Special: 9-5 – 2009

Yemeni authorities have today carried out a telephone conversation with President Ali Salem Albied in the country, who lives in Austria and threatened him by physical liquidation by an official way , and accused President Ali Salem Albied in a telephone conversation with the “Aden press,” Immediately after receiving the call, that the people spoke, by SANAA formal way and by the President regime of Ali Abdullah Saleh spoke to him this morning and told him explicitly that we know where you will be, where do you get rid if it did not stop what he described as “a farce and the storm,” which raised Albied since announced his departure from Muscat and his call for the people of the South to unite behind their cause, just published in the In an earlier statement, “Aden press .”

The Albied that he had contacts after the conversation with the security of residence in Austria and told them the incident and details of the conversation with him conducted by the Yemen, the authorities there have taken precautionary procedures and appropriate security and provided protection for the head of the White and his family immediately.

Albied gave the Sanaa regime and its leader, the full responsibility for any harm happen to him or to one of the members of his family, God forbid, calling through “Aden Press,” the sons of the south to more unity and cohesion behind the just cause and confirmed that the Albied of such acts will not deter us from continuing our struggle towards achieve independence and liberation of our country.

One of the historical leaders, al Attas I think it was on al Jazeera, mentioned some of the people who have been assassinated, and I was surprised that he stopped at three. But Saleh has a considerable trail of blood behind him.

Last week he asked Saudi Arabia to extradite al Attas and Oman to extradite al Beedh.

More bad Google translation. Several journalists, academics, human rights workers and others were denied visas to Yemen recently. The following story deals with Laurent Bonneyfoy, French academic, who had a visa and was refused entry at the airport. He wasn’t even permitted to call the French Embassy or his wife in Sana’a before being turned around and flown back out. He was working on research with the International Crisis Group on the Sa’ada War. The ICG is an impartial and respected organization that focuses on conflict resolution.

This tactic of denying visas along with the banning of several major newspapers is clearly a regime tactic to hide the truth and prevent its dissemination internally and internationally. Its such a dirtbag regime, but it plays the game very well. Bonneyfoy is never very controversial or critical and normally sticks to boutique topics, but any research on Sa’ada scares the regime. There’s a lot still hidden that they want to stay hidden. As I’ve said before, this tactic of threatened and actual Visa denial causes some to temper their public analysis. Its understandable, but the world and the Yemeni people suffer for it.

Saleh’s propaganda machine is actually quite impressive in its repressive and proactive aspects domestically and internationally. The several other instances of recent Visa refusals are equally egregious. You’ll have to take my word for it until they become public.

Al Needa: طرد الشهود من اليمن وإغلاق البلاد على حروب غير محدودة – نبيل سبيع Expelled from Yemen, witnesses and the closure of the country’s wars, however limited – Subaie
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أجرت منظمة دولية مرموقة بحثا في اليمن حول إيجاد شروط أساسية لبناء سلام دائم في صعدة وتزمع إصدار تقرير حول ذلك بعد أسبوعين، لكن القصة ليست هنا. Held a prestigious international organization in Yemen, on the search to find the conditions essential to building a lasting peace in Saada and intends to issue a report on that after two weeks, but the story is not here. القصة في أن التقرير تسبب بطرد الباحث الفرنسي بونفوا الذي عمل عليه وهذه قد تكون بداية سياسة جديدة تنتهجها صنعاء: The story that the report caused Bonfoi, causing him to expel the French researcher who worked for him and this could be the beginning of a new policy sanaa:
الوضع في اليمن ذاهب إلى الأسوأ. (Read on …)

Number four

al Sahwa

Aden, Sahwa Net- Son of a former parliamentarian and member of the Yemeni Social Party Wadah Saleh Harbi passed away on Sunday as a result of an unidentified bullet he was subjected to on Friday. (Read on …)

Yemeni-American analyst Munier al Mawari wrote an article that was published in Yemen and he has been declared a fugative for not showing up in court. He’s in DC. The concern of course is for the editor in Yemen who is also facing charges. There’s a few journalists beaten, arrested and harrassed lately, but they are doing a very poor job in getting the information out in English. I’m trying to make a master list.

al Eshteraki Court postponed its secretariat in the West on Monday morning to consider the issue of the source until 20 April next لإتاحة الفرصة للنيابة إبلاغ الصحفي منير الماوري بقرار الاتهام. For the opportunity to inform the press on behalf of the Maori Munir’s decision to charge. (Read on …)

الأخوة أعضاء يمن بورتال الأعزاء،

تحية طيبة أهديها إليكم بعد طول غياب ويسعدني إبلاغكم بأن المحرك “يمن بورتال نت” قد تجاوز عقبة أخرى وانتهى من التحديث الجذري للبنية التحتية له حيث انتقل إلى سيرفر جديد ذو سعة وسرعة كبيرتين وبالتالي فإن تصفحه سيكون أسرع وأسهل من الآن فصاعداً.

كما يسعدني إبلاغكم بأن عدد المواد المخزنة في قاعدة بيانات المحرك قد وصل مؤخراً إلى مليون مادة. وإليكم البيان المرفق الذي يحتوي على التفاصيل وأتمنى أن يقوم أصحاب المواقع والمدونون منكم بنشره دعماً منكم للمحرك الذي ما يزال مع الأسف محجوباً في اليمن إلا أنه من الممكن محاولة فتحه عبر الرابط المؤمن

https://yemenportal.net

متأملاً استجابتكم في نشر المرفق مع تمنياتي لكم بالتوفيق والنجاح.
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An interview with Nasser Al-Khabji, a leader in the Southern Mobility Movement published in the Yemen Post. (Of course, “armed groups” and “some parties” refers to the Fahdli jihaddists that Saleh made a deal with.)

NY: How can you describe what happens in Abyan, especially when some armed groups dominate certain areas?
NK: What happens in Abyan is part of state plots. The state cannot live or rule without contradictions and seeding seditions among society members. This is a tribal and military legacy for the ruling system which is incapable to come up to the civil system – that of state institutions, justice, equality, freedom and the acceptance of the other.

NY: Are you for highway robbery to force the authority to meet some legal demands?
NK: We have been and still are against any armed act or highway robbery. We refuse it; however, we, at the same time, do not accept injustice and bloodshed during peaceful demonstrations. This gives us the right to defend ourselves through the legitimate means.

NY: There has been news that there is a deal between the authority and some parties in the south to perform political assassinations, to what extents is this right and how would you deal with it?
NK: Everything is possible by a state that pays no respect for the human. There are indications of media campaigns targeting mobility leaders and some political symbols as well as distribution of arms from the military stores, especially in Radfan. These are dangerous signs and they could imply a forthcoming war on the lands of south Yemen.

fractures in the house of Saleh, al Sahwa:

Sahwa Net – The Joint Meeting Parties has denounced what labeled abuses and infringements practiced by the Yemeni official media against other parties , indicting that the authorities intervene on other party affairs and promote their divisions.

JMP expressed its sympathy with The Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party which was subject to defamation campaign , calling all other political forces to strongly condemn abuses and smears practiced against it .