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Human rights violations in August 2009 in South Yemen

- On August 2nd, peaceful demonstrations took place in different cities of South-Yemen attended by thousands of southern protestors to demand the release of those arrested for their activities in the Southern Movement, solidarity with the "Al-Ayyam" newspaper and its publishers in addition to express solidarity with the people of Kuwait in the anniversary of Iraq's invasion of its territory in August 1990. Yemeni security forces fired bullets and tear gas at the protesters, especially in Lahj, Al-Houtah resulting in four injuries one of them seriously in the bully while 13 protestors were arrested.

- On August 3rd, the political security service arrested in Aden Osman Al-Salafi, member of the Supreme National organization of southern people in Britain, who lives in Sheffield and was visiting his relatives in Aden. He already had been investigated previously with his family at the airport upon arrival on June 27th, and released some hours later.

- On August 4th, the news website, Aden Press, revealed that Imams of mosques in the South received an official written **** for the Friday sermon subjected to threats of assault in case they do not commit to the **** written in Sana’a which is a major interference into the religious tasks of the Imams.

- On August 6th, spontaneous protest demonstrations escalated into violence in Al-Mimdarah quarters in Aden when thousands went out to protest against water cut for more than 10 days shouting slogans against the occupation. The Yemeni occupation forces attacked the participants with batons and used tear gas and bullets and arrested dozens of mostly kids under 15. The security forces arrested also a paralyzed young man called Mohamed Saleh Mugammal who was taken with his wheelchair by a military crew accompanied by his tutor Qassim Shamil Al-Gouna and another person called Waddah Abdullah Nasser Al-Gouna.

- On August 8th, Aden Press published a story about the southern Soldier Muthana Abdul Salam Mohammed Qasim, who is located in Al-Rada’a in the province of Al-Beidha’a in North Yemen. He was brutally beaten and his salary confiscated by an officer of the security unit in Rada’a called Mabkhout Al-Aansi. The soldier was not able to receive the salary as he was on wedding leave and when he went to the house of the officer to ask for his salary he was attached by the officer himself.

- On August 10th, the employee of the fabrics in Aden staged a sit-in to protest against stalling official bodies of disbursement their salaries.

- In the central prison in Al-Mukalla, capital of Hadramout governorate on the 10.8.2009, tear gas was fired into inside closed cells where southern detainees were arrested. Many lost consciousness and have not been provided any medical first aid and left to their fate. Furthermore, security forces beat them with rifle butts and denied them food and did not allow their lawyers to meet them despite order from a judge.

- On August 11th a bus destined for Zangibar to attend the funeral of martyrs of the event of Zangibar, was detained at the center of the investigation in Vuha and passengers were arrested. Among those arrested were Sheikh Saleh Al-Amoudi, Abdullah bin Salman and Salim Alasani.

- On August 11th the regime of Sana’a started its 6th war against the Houthies in Sa’ada and Harf Sufyan in more bloody and brutal way using all kinds of land and air weapons bombing the peaceful citizens in their towns and villages. We all saw the moving and painful pictures of the civilian victims of this war. But, there is another face of this war that has not been realized by others yet. This was the southern soldiers that were forced to join this war and were sent to the most dangerous places to fight against the Houthies. These soldiers are forced to pay their live for the survival of the regime of Sana’a.

- On August 8th the security forces in Al-Mukalla beaten political prisoners jailed at CID of Al-Mukalla using electric batons, sticks and gun butts, as punishment for their protest against the bad conditions of their arrestment and denying them visits. According to credible sources of Aden-Press, the detainees were suffering from very poor health and serious injuries from beatings. The same sources also reported that the detained political activist Nasser Mahfouz Bagazkooz, a leader in the southern movement, lost consciousness and entered a coma, yet, was left in prison
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- At two o'clock of the morning of August 13th security forces shot towards the home of Sheikh Tariq Al-Fadhli from the local administration building opposite of Sheikh Tariq’s house injuring one of his bodyguards which is considered as a deliberate act of provocation against Sheikh Tariq.

- Continuing the series of looting lands in the South by influential persons of the Yemen Arabic Republic, “Aden Press” reported that Al-Hamdani, the owner of the Green City in the southern capital of Aden have looted the land of the Assembly of Shibam agriculture that is owned by a group of southern small investors. It is known that Al-Hamdani managed companies belonging to the Yemeni president and his son.

- Habitants of Khanfar, Zangibar and Hawtah in the governorates of Lahj and Abyan conducted sit-in on August 15th to protest against water shortages. The habitants stated that the government uses cutting off water supplies as a means of pressure to humiliate them.

- The local authority in the province of Lahj released 27 southern protestors who participated in a sit-in against non-admission their recruitment into the army despite the availability of all conditions.

- On August 16th continuing the repression exposed to Al-Ayyam newspaper and its publishers, the Immigration and Passports Office in Aden refused the renewal request of the passport of Mr. Hisham Ba-Shraheel which expired in June of this year. The officials referred to order from Director of Aden Security Brigadier Abdullah Abdu Qiran. The head of immigration and passport office in Aden had already issued an order on May 12th 2009 to ban both Hisham Bashraheel editor of "Al-Ayyam Newspaper" and his son Hani Bashraheel editor of "Al-Ayyam Sport" from leaving the country and to arrest them in case they attempt to leave the country. Just for information, Mr. Hisham Bashraheel suffers from several health problems and underwent open-heart surgery in Saudi Arabia and needs to see the surgeon in the hospital where the operation was performed for follow up checks every six months.

- The political security office transferred the file of the journalist Salah Al-Saqladi, editor of the network Aden-News and representative of the organization “The Change” in Aden, to the State Security Prosecution. Mr. Al-Saqladi was arrested three months ago when officers of the political security office attacked him in his house in Khormakser, Aden, where he was beaten and humiliated in front of his mother, his children and his wife and then transferred to the Yemeni capital Sana’a. He is in a cell in a prison belonging to the political security. Sources reported that he was tortured psychologically and physically.

- The journalist Fouad Raashid, editor of Al-Mukalla Press is still detained since May 4th and he was transferred from Hadramout to Sanaa and kept also in a prison belonging to political security. No visits were allowed to him and no further information could be obtained about the condition of his arrest.

- On August 19th Hundreds protested in Al-Dhalii demanding on the release of detainees who were arrested for protest activities in the South.

- In the first week of Ramadan habitants of Aden demonstrated in several parts of the city to protest against continued water cut for weeks causing water bottlenecks, especially with the onset of the holy month, Ramadan. The government repressed the protests violently using bullets and tear gas, killing a young man named Ahmed Ali Marmash (16 years), injuring 5 others and arresting dozens others.

- In the following days, August 20th to August 27th, numerous of protest actions took place in the Governorate of Aden against the violent repression of the protests and to demand the release of the detainees.

- On August 27th Yemeni occupying forces attempted to prevent the establishment of a protest action in Al-Huseen, Al-Dhalii which led to clash between military forces and protestors. Finally it was possible to conduct the event but after detention of 5 protestors who were taken by the military forces.

- On August 28th, one person was killed and three others wounded in Radfan, Lahj during a fire exchange between the security of the Directorate of Habail Jabr, and armed guards who abducted a post vehicle to protest against the cut of their salaries by the government.

- ON August 29th the authority in Karish, Lahj, released the political activist Ahmad Salim Al-Wuhaishi who was arrested due to his participation in a previous protest action demanding the release of all southern detainees and the stop of the repression of Al-Ayyam newspaper. He was brought to trial and sent to prison for two months. Al-Wuhaishi reported his suffering from the arrest and the conditions in prison as well as the violations against the southern detainee’s imprisonment in general.

- On August 30th massive protest actions took place in Zangibar against the repetitive water and electricity cut.
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