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Demonstration in Al-Mahfed demands stopping pretensions against Al-Fadhli


Al-Mahfed / Aden News Agency / Exclusive / 20-03-2010

A peaceful demonstration was carried out in the city of Al-Mahfed, Abyan province, in the south of Yemen, this morning, to protest against filling cities of the south with soldiers, and to express solidarity with Al-Aiam Newspaper, and its editor-in-chief, Hisham Ba'sharaheel, who declared strike of food days ago.






Demonstrators tied green bands around their heads, as a response to the call of the former South Yemeni president Ali Salem Al-Beedh. For what became known as "The Green Revolution". They wandered around the city raising flags of former South Yemen, and reiterating slogans contain verses against the Yemeni central government, and the Yemeni unification.




Speakers among them sheik Salem Mansoor Al-Garadi, the retired majors Nasser Ali Al-Gadhi, and Mohammed Ahmed Taibah, and the activist Ateef Mohammed Ateef censured what they called it "Authority of occupation in Sana'a", for bombarding the southern cities by illegal weapons, as they said.





"Sana'a authority can not stop the wheel of the south's freedom, and it must summit to the decision of the south's people, with its contentment before it finds itself unable in front of the people's will", speakers added in the demonstration.





They also expressed solidarity with Al-Aiam Newspaper and its editor-in-chief, Hisham Ba'sharaheel, and demanded to release him with his two sons, Hani and Mohammed, who have been arrested on January 6th.







The speakers said "The entire southern people support Tareq Al-Fadhli, whatever the occupation authority of Sana'a says to defame him", adding "Regime must stop its pretensions against Al-Fadhli, and all the Southern Movement leaders and activists, to be engaged with attempts of the free world, instead of being a copy of dictatorial regimes, ended by shameful falls".





Al-Mahfed witnesses open demonstrations, according to an open plan, since the air raid on Al-Magla'a village, which caused tens of dead, most of them were children and women.






Provinces which formerly formed South Yemen, live a state of friction, between people of these provinces, and the central regime in Sana'a, which is described as an "Occupation regime", after what they call it "Changing the unification which was signed in 1994 between South and North Yemen, to an "Absolute occupation".



* Photographs of Al-Mahfed's protest this morning.

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