Families of the September 11th detainees appeal to the president [Archives:2002/29/Local News]

The families of the detainees in relation to the Sept 11th and USS Cole incidents appealed in a statement to President Ali Abdullah Saleh to order their immediate release. The statement said that the arrest of those detainees is illegal and is at odds with the state of law and the constitution. The National Organization for Defending Freedoms and Rights {Hood} also condemned the arrests, suppression and the psychological torture said to be exerted on the detainees who spent about one year in prison without trial.
Hood published a list of 141 of the detainees and appealed to the president to release them and order a compensation for being illegally detained. The organization also appealed to the parliament to take action in accordance to their constitutional powers in supervising the conducts of the government. At the same time, Hood appealed to the Prosecutor to order the offices of the Attorney Generals to inspect the political security and criminal investigation prisons to prove the arrest cases and try the persons who made the arrests according to the constitution.
So far, there has been no positive response from the president, and many analysts believe that there could be no positive reaction to this appeal because of US pressure on Yemen.

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