14 al-Qaeda suspects released [Archives:2002/47/Front Page]

SANAA-Executive manager of the National Organization for Defending Rights and Freedoms (NODRF) the lawyer Khalid al-A’nisi said that the Yemeni intelligence organization had set free 14 persons who had been under investigation for alleged links to al-Qaeda organization. He added that more suspects were expected to be released within the coming two weeks.
Mr al-A’nisi told Yemen Times “We have been sure that 14 persons have been set free in the past week. Those were detained at the Political Security Organization (the Intelligence)”, adding that it is expected that another number of detainees would be released in the coming days. They are out of 82 persons the Political Security Organization admits to be detained by it while the actual number is expected to be higher.
A Yemeni parliamentary committee had condemned in a report issued last September the arrest operations that included persons suspected to have links to terrorist organizations. The report mentioned that “the arrest operations were carried out in an illegal way and they were deprived of their legal rights.”
The report added that the authorities did not level charges against any of the arrestees whose number, at the time of issuing the report, amounted to 152, 104 of them detained at the Political Security.
Yemen shows cooperation with the United States in chasing and arresting people suspected of having links to al-Qaeda organization of Usama bin Laden considered as the mastermind of 11 September 2001 attacks.
The CIA had announced its responsibility for killing Qaed Senayan and five of his partners on November 3 in Mareb governorate as part of an operation of hunting down suspects in Yemen.

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