Ashameri released [Archives:2002/33/Local News]

BY FAROUK AL-KAMALI
TAIZ BUREAU
Abdulaleem Ashameri, the Chairman of the Ambition Society for the Deaf and Blind Rehabilitation and Care was released last Tuesday by the security authorities in Taiz. Ashameri was arrested on August 4 and forced to leave his job as the chairman of the society to be replaced by a member of the Peoples General Congress (PGC). The majority of the societys members and staff are either the blind or deaf.
Ashameri has recently lodged a complaint to the prosecuting attorney of the Taiz governorate against the General Manager of Labor and Social Affairs for abusing the power entrusted to him.Ashameri told the Yemen Times that he wouldnt abandon the society, whose members have the right to elect the person whom they trust. In this regard, the society passed through difficult times as it was unable to pay the rent and train and rehabilitate the blind and blind.
Since its establishment, the Ambition Society for the Deaf and Blind Rehabilitation and Care has been badly in need of financial assistance. Ashameri called upon human rights organizations to support the society to help the handicapped have a better and promising future.

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