MoKhtar Al-Obaydi was abducted by the the national security while he was returning from the Change Square to his village in Arhab, north of Sanaaa, on the first of Ramadan. He teaches the religious studies at the Zaidi Sheikh Abo Nashdan’s Centere in Arhab.
These 428 were actually released, some after years and many broken pledges, thanks to the good offices of Qatar. There was a second release of several dozen and several hundred remain in jail.
Yemeni government releases 428 Houthis and gets back 10 military vehicles
30/12/2010 News Yemen: The government on Thursday released 428 Houthis who in return freed 10 military vehicles. (Read on …)
For more on the al Ghadeer arrests in Amran, click here. Mr. Baoum, leader of one of the southern independence factions was arrested early in November. More at Aden News Agency.
News Yemen: Political sources said Friday that presidential directives issued to release the leading figure in the Southern Movement, Hassan Baom, his son and his colleagues. Sources also said that 22 supporters of Houthis, arrested on the al-Ghadir Day in Amran, have been released.
Al-Haq party welcomed the releases of detainees and called on the government to release all detainees and make real peace in Sa’ada. It also called on political parties and human rights organizations to play a role over the detention of innocent people without any legal justification for more than five years.
Its unbelievable!!! What happened to the amnesty for political prisoners?
Related: Sahwa Net -The Specialized Press and Publications Court sentenced on Saturday the editor-in-chief of Al-Nass newspaper, Osama Ghalib and journalist Fawzi al-Kahili a fine of YR 50.000. The prosecution has accused Ghalib and al-Kahili of publicly releasing articles which abused Adel Qaid, director of al-Mithaq Foundation which belongs to Yemen’s ruling party, the General People’s Congress.
Resumed on Sunday, 10/10/2010 Penal Court specialized in Aden under the chairmanship of Judge Mamedalowhit trial of Al-Ayam newspaper forcibly suspended since May 2009, and has appeared before this Court, Mr. Hisham Bashraheel editor of the days and his two sons, brother Hani Bashrahil editor of sports days suspended also forcibly Mohammed Hisham Bashrahil and CEO of days and I welcome the good Musharraf presses and a number of newspaper employees. (Read on …)
I knew they were going to target General Nuba one way or another. See my 9/26 post, “Next Saleh will discover al Qaeda near General Nasser al Nuba’s camp”. I was close, but instead they blamed him for the assault on the governor of Shabwa’s convoy. Its a ridiculous charge. While General Nuba created and leads the association of retired military officers, he’s never organized them into a military unit. Among all the factions, and since 2007, the Retired Military Association has the most self-discipline and has always remained peaceful, in spite of tremendous provocations. The end result will likely be the same. The military is preparing a second wave of assaults in Shabwa, the vicinity of al Hota they say. Also see southern movement statement below. Who the Yemeni state blames for anything is a function of who they are talking to. For CNN, its al Qaeda.
(CNN) — Yemen has dispatched paramilitary forces to a southern province following an ambush on the local governor by suspected al Qaeda militants, a government official said Thursday.
The forces are preparing for a second offensive on Shabwa province “very soon,” said the Yemeni official who did not want to be identified because he is not authorized to speak to the media. (Read on …)
To wipe out the people with inside knowledge of all the dirty tricks, and that was the buzz on the attack on the prison and they are mysteriously re-zoning all of the Aden free zone. Its a giant conspiracy theory and if one quarter of it is true, then the US is in deep trouble. I like the part where the author analyzes the al Qaeda statements and really al Qaeda has been wheeling and dealing with the Saleh regime for two decades.
Saada Aden Revealed a legal expert and political analyst south of the facts confirm beyond any reasonable doubt and the parking system the occupation of Sana’a and behind all terrorist attacks in the areas of the South recently targeted a number of figures southern security headquarters and facilities of the State under the pretext of “Al Qaeda” emphasizes partnership this system in the industry of terrorism. (Read on …)
A statement from TAJ regarding al-Ayyam’s guard:
To: Amnesty International
To: The Arabic Human Rights Organisation
To: World Human Rights OrganisationWe urgently write to you to condemn the death sentence issued from one of Sana’a courts in the Republic of Yemen on Sunday 11 July 2010 against the political activist Ahmed Omer Alobady who has been in prison since 14th February 2008.
Mr Alobady was wrongly arrested by the occupation Yemeni forces for his politics views towards the Southern Arabia crisis, NOT for any crime that he has committed, in order to intimidate other political activists joining this peaceful movement.
Despite the Yemeni General Attorney’s failure to find any proof against Mr Alobady, he was sentenced to death.
This method is widely used by the Yemeni Government against all Southern Arabia political activists.
As a matter of urgency we would like you and ALL other organisations around the world to act quickly to overturn this unfair judgment.
Southern Democratic Assembly ( TAJ )
12 July 2010
مناشده عاجله
الى منظمة العفو الدوليه الى المنظمه العربيه لحقوق الانسان الى المنظمه الدوليه لحقوق الانسان
نتوجه بهذا النداء العاجل اليكم لادانة الحكم الصادر من احدى المحاكم اليمنيه في صنعاء صباح يوم الاحد 11-7-2010م بحق الناشط السياسي احمد عمر العبادي السجين منذ14 فبراير 2008م الذي كان متواجداً اثناء حادثة الاعتداء على منزل رئيس تحرير صحيفة الأيام الجنوبي هشام باشراحيل في صنعاءوالذي كان حادثاً مدبراً يستهدف نشاطهما السياسي بدرجه أولى ومواقف الرجلين ودورهما المتميز في الحراك الجنوبي لاسكاتهما ومعاقبتهما على مواقفهما الثابته من القضيه العادله للشعب الجنوبي , وتم تدبير هذه ا لمكيده ا لجنائيه حتى يتسنى لحكومة الاحتلال اليمني إلباس القضيه ثوباً جنائياً كما تعود نظام صنعاء اليمني في التعامل مع خصومه السياسيين في العاده وعلى الرغم من ان النيابه العامه اليمنيه لم تتمكن من اثبات التهمه الجنائيه بالقتل لاحمد عمر العبادي . ولم تكتف سلطات صنعاء اليمنيه بالاعتداء على منزل باشراحيل في صنعاء بل قامت قوات الأمن اليمنيه بالاعتداء مرة أخرى على منزل باشراحيل في عدن مما أدى الى قتل حارس منزله وشخصين آخرين . أن كل هذه دلائل بأن هناك استهداف شخصي للرجلين احمد عمر العبادي وهشام باشراحيل .اننا نطالب منظماتكم وكافة المنظمات الدوليه والانسانيه المهتمه بحقوق الانسان للقيام بحمله دوليه وسرعة التحرك وإدانة هذا الحكم الجائر وايقافه .
التجمع الديمقراطي الجنوبي (تاج ) لندن بتاريخ 11-7-2010م
Alia al Wazir was stopped in the airport en route to a Freedom House conference and prohibited from leaving the country. No male escort (mahram) was the official reason, not that there’s a law on the books to that effect, and its likely due to the trial of her husband, UN employee Walid Sharaf al-Din, charged with communicating with Iran. The National Security can’t prevent al Qaeda from exiting and entering Yemen but they do a whopper of a job on the activists, journalists and civil rights workers. Update: the state hasn’t presented any evidence against al Din and his lawyers demanded the judge recuse himself. The trial has been continually postponed.
al Eshteraki: منعت سلطات مطار صنعاء الدولي زوجة معتقل في الأمن السياسي من السفر إلى بيروت يوم الأحد. Authorities banned Sana’a International Airport wife was detained in the political security of travel to Beirut on Sunday. (Read on …)
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.
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.
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.
Number four
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 …)
al Sahwa Yemeni authorities keep holding Yemeni journalist Wajdi al-Shabi who was arrested while he was covering a rally held in Aden on Tuesday.
Al-Shabi was abusively taken to the criminal investigation of Aden and was charged with involving in confrontations with the authorities last year.
Al-Watan newspaper which al-Shabi belongs to demanded to immediately release its journalist, holding the security responsible for its life.
What can we learn from this article in the Yemen Times?
The Jewish people who were relocated from Sa’ada were not compensated for their property. Although the regime is mouthing words about protection, the lawyers who are representing the victim are being threatened. The Jewish community is still threatened and harassed by the murderer’s relatives and Salafis. A member of the community was murdered in cold blood last month, so these are not empty threats. The court in Amran is dominated by these forces, not only is it unfair but unsafe.
SANA’A, Jan. 4 – During the second court session of the trial of Abdul Aziz Al-Abdi, who is accused the murdering Jewish citizen Masha Al-Nahari this past December 31, journalists and lawyers said that “the court session was full of chaos and quarrels. A soldier was attacked by one of the family members of the accused. In addition, the Jewish family received death threats from the murderer’s relatives.”
Advocates of Al-Nahari demanded to transfer the case and trial to Sana’a due to lack of proper security at the Amran Court and dominance of Al-Abdi’s relatives who “control the events of the session and create chaos inside the court hall,” said Abdul Rahman Barman, a lawyer from Allaw Law Foundation which volunteered to defend Al-Nahari’s case in the court.
“Amid lack of security and the chaos that Al-Abdi’s relatives create, the trial will not be safe,” Barman said.
Today, the Yemeni Jews in Amran, some 70 kilometers northwest of Sana’a, are living in a state of horror after receiving threats from some Salafia supporters. The threats are increasing with the ongoing aggression in Gaza by the Israeli occupants. (Read on …)
Almotamar.net – The Specialised Criminal Court on Tuesday fixed the date of one month from today for announcing the sentence against the persons accused of forming an armed gang for killing and sabotage and attacking security institutions (Sana’a 2nd Cell).
In the sitting of the court held Tuesday under chairmanship of Judge Muhsin Alwan, Head of the First Instance Court, the prosecution presented its final presentation and asked the severest sentence legally stipulated against the accused members of the gang.
The presentation mentioned that the defendants had participated in formation of an armed gang for killing, sabotage and attacking security and military institutions by using explosive charges in addition to putting poisons in camps water tanks.
The lawyer of the victims’ families, the killed Majors Abdulgfhani al-Maamari and Yahya Rawee, presented his final statement and requested the execution of the defendants. The defence body of defendant Abdulkarim al-Khaiwani presented also the closing defence and asked the court to acquit their client from charges against him.
At the end of the lawyers reading the closing statement the journalist Mohammed al-Maqaleh bust into noisy laughter and when the court asked him about the reason of his laughter he continued his laughing and ridicule of the trial saying it was a farce. The court decided sending hi to prosecution for interrogation due to his ridiculing the court and violation of the sitting as well as insulting the judiciary.
Ran out of comedians? al-Sahwa
April 13, 2008- Yemen’s security services have been following up a poet, Fuad al-Himiari, since two weeks on charges of sedition and inciting.
Al-Himiari had delivered a speech in a rally organized by the opposition party in Sana’a in which he slammed the government and the ruling party.
Last week, a well known comedic artist, Fahd al-Qarni was arrested on the same charges.
This is a very important survey.
SANAA, Aid workers say children and adolescents in Saada Governorate, northern Yemen, have experienced high levels of psychological trauma as a result of prolonged fighting between government forces and a Shia rebel group.
Their assertion is based in part on the results of a UN Children’s Fund-funded survey carried out by the Medical Charitable Association (MCA), a local non-governmental organisation. The psycho-social assessment survey covered all 15 of Saada’s districts in August-October 2007.
Some 1,400 respondents were selected, 630 of whom were children and adolescents. Some 92.4 percent of the sampled children and adolescents had been exposed to armed conflict; 5.7 percent were evacuated temporarily from their villages during armed conflict; 44 percent were forced to hide to save their lives; 43.4 percent saw the destruction of their or their friends’ houses; 28 percent felt they were about to die during the conflict; 15 percent were injured; 13.8 percent had at least one family member killed; and 10 percent had one family member missing.
Mohammed al-Maqrami, technical coordinator of the Psychosocial Support Project, told IRIN that 53.2 percent of respondents ranked high on major depressive symptoms, and 49.2 percent on post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
“Saada locals, according to the findings, had high levels of PTSD symptoms – on a par with traumatised populations in post-conflict areas like Nepal, Palestine and Iran,” he said.
According to al-Maqrami, symptoms included depression, anxiety, behavioural and aggression problems, and physical symptoms (like nausea, headaches and tremors).
The Saada Governorate has only seven health facilities, and a population of some 700,000. There is no specialist facility for psychological cases.
Training
On 16 February MCA started a two-week training workshop in Saada city, targeting 70 local people. The trainees include health and education workers, civil society organisations, and community leaders. Mahfoud al-Kadam, an MCA information officer, said the trainees would learn how to deal with psychologically affected people, and also be given manuals.
Once trained, Al-Kadam said, trainees would be sent to the field to deal with traumatised people and also train locals on dealing with them.
According to MCA, delayed onset disorder cases or those with persistent psychological distress, despite receiving psychological first aid and group interventions locally, will need to be referred to regional and central teams for more specialised treatment.
source: IRIN
Ahmed Said Hasid is an editor, activist and Member of Yemeni Parliament. In a televised session, extremist members of Parliament labeled Mr. Hasid a “disbeliever”. He expects to be killed by militants as a result.
The Jawa Report published testimony Mr. Hashid collected from prisoners describing torture, near starvation, children jailed and illegal private prisons. Links below are to the witness testimony and my interview with Mr. Hashid. Hashid was also named the Yemen Times Person of the Year in recognition of his humanitarian work. 
Yemeni Parliamentarians forwarded a lawsuit to the prosecutor demanding that Hasid’s parliamentary immunity be revoked so he can be prosecuted. They also demand that the newspaper that Mr. hasid founded, Al-Mustaqilah, be closed down. Yemen’s Parliament has taken no steps to rescue the children in jail, the victims of torture or persons illegally detained in tribal prisons.
In a telephone interview, Hashid told the Yemen Times, “I was considered a disbeliever due to some articles recently published in my newspaper, one of which reported a meeting with an insane person who said, ‘Allah was not fair to me.’ Another issue related to one of the ladies who inquired about a fatwa related to prayer and adultery.”
Prisons in Yemen: Torture by Acid and Electricity, Children Housed with Adults, Hostages, Political Prisoners, No Food for Some
Ahmed Saif Hashid: Yemen Times’ Person of the Year
Witness Testimony From the Dungeons of Yemeni Prisons
Hodeidah Hood team members: Decry the attack on the journalists in Hodeidah
Wednesday 06 February 2008 / Hood onlineHood team in Hodeidah governorate condemned the attack on the journalists who covered the protest of the workers in health sector yesterday. The doctors and the other employees demanded the government for better conditions.
The journalists were Mansour Abu Ali, the correspondent of Al-Ayyam newspaper, Mustfa Badr, al-Gumhuriah newspaper, and Mansoor al-Dubai’I, Saba News Agency. Soldiers of the governorate attacked the journalists by orders from Colonel Hassan al-Haij, the General Secretary of the Hodeidah local council.
Hodeidah Hood team members demanded an investigation for the attack and apologizing to the attacked journalists. In addition, people working in the health sector have every right to protest peacefully to take back their rights, said Hood members in Hodeidah.
This is the organziation headed by Tawwakol Karaman, who has been getting death threats by text message on her and her kids.
Al-SAhwa
December 1, 2007- Political Security has confiscated documents of the Journalists without Chains Organization
JWC said members of the Political Security confiscated on Saturday documents form the civil society exhibition held at Sheraton hotel, Sana’a.
She further explained that security members confiscated documents regarding press freedom in Yemen and refused to give it back.
Armies of Liberation website was banned by Yemeni authorities in 2007 and remains blocked by government censors despite a partial regime change in 2012.
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