Al-Shoura [Archives:2005/846/Press Review]

25 May 2005
Main headlines

– Continued military movements and demolition of houses in Saada

– Six victims in armed confrontation between the security and al-Houthi supporters in the capital Sana'a

– Parliamentarians: Hunt incapable of suing

– Legal organizations stage sit-in strike demanding abolishment of Specialized Criminal Court

Columnist Abdulrahman Mohammed Al-Sharif says in his article indicators denote the authority endeavour to dissolve the two parties of the Union of People's Forces and the al-Haq and the unjustifiable official antagonism against them. This stance can be felt from the speech of the president of the republic in which there was an open fomenting against the two political parties in dependence on al-Houthi interview in the Al-Wassat newspaper and an interview with Dr Mohammed Abdulmalik al-Mutawakil in the Annas newspaper. All those were merely ordinary press interviews having nothing that may arouse this revolt against democracy and political pluralism.

It has not been in mind of anyone that our country falls to this degree of recession in the level of freedom and setback of democracy in this form heralding of serious consequences. This backing down from democracy and despotic measures would not lead to control of the regime on reins of power in full.
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