Journalist attacked [Archives:2005/894/Front Page]

SANA'A- Nov. 12- The prominent opposition journalist, Nabil Subei was subjected to beating and stabbing on Saturday for his critical writing on the authorities and corrupt officials.

Journalist Nief Hassan, who is in the company of Nabil Subei, said in a statement to the Yemen Times that a number of masked men attacked and beat his colleague Saturday night. They stabbed him with jambia on different parts of his body and opened fired on him to terrorize him, as well as to convince other people who attempted to defend him not to approach them. Sources said that the attackers robbed his mobile phone and escaped in blue Mazda car without a number plate.

The victim then was transferred to a private hospital in the locality while Nief Hassan held the authorities accountable for the attack on the opposition journalist.

The prominent journalist Nabil Subei have been writing for many opposition newspapers for years, and in his writing he was criticizing corruption. He always claims reforming government apparatuses and holding corrupt officials to account. According to his colleagues, Nabil Subei has been threatened several times to be attacked and killed.

It is worth mentioning that Subei is currently standing trial in one of the capital's courts under the accusation of offending the president. This is based on an article that he had published in Althori newspaper, mouthpiece of the Socialist party.

This assault comes within a series of attacks against the journalist amid an official threat campaign. Journalist Jamal Amir, chief editor of Independent Al-wasat news paper, was also kidnapped and threatened with murder by an unidentified group. The car in which he was kidnapped in was a republican guard car, but his case died away in terror fighting forces' drawers. The attackers of Jamal were never revealed, though Jamal had given the car numbers.
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