Hubeish locals plan a sit-in at presidential palace [Archives:2006/950/Local News]
IBB, May 28 ) Locals in the Hubeish area of the Ibb governorate plan to stage a sit-in in front of the Presidential Palace after the deadline set for the Sanhan sheikhs to give up Al-Hamidi's killers passed. The suspected killers of Mohamed Al-Hamidi are harbored by influential sheikhs in the Sanhan district, the birthplace of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
The victim's family held a meeting with some Hubeishi locals on Saturday and discussed the necessary steps to take in the days to come after the deadline for the surrender of the alleged murderers to the security authorities passed last Friday. Previously, the Sanhan tribe has pledged to give-up the suspects, Al-Shoura.Net reported.
Fahd Al-Hamidi, the victim's brother, said that Hubeish tribesmen waited for an ultimate response last Saturday following the intervention of a Hubeishi sheikh, Abdullah Abu Holeigah. However, no results were seen from the intervention. Fahd confirmed that the Sanhani sheikhs' refusal to hand over the perpetrators to the police will force them to resort to their last option: a sit-in at the Presidential Palace to insist on the fair application of the law.
Ali Maqsa'a, a maternal uncle of President Saleh, sent mediators to settle the predicament through tribal arbitration. Meanwhile, prominent sheikhs from the Sanhan, the Belad Al-Rous, and the Khawlan tribes tendered eight guns to Hubeishi sheikhs last week in an attempt to settle the issue by arbitration.
The Huheishi locals' refusal to accept tribal arbitration compelled Sanhani sheikhs to make pledges to transfer the suspected killers to police, but nothing has been achieved.
On May 14, relatives of the victim-who was allegedly killed by a group of armed men from Sanhan inside his small shop on 45 Meter Street in Sana'a in front of his two sons aged 8 and 13) renewed their rejection of any tribal solution to the crisis.
Fahd Al-Hamidi asserted that the family will never accept any solution other than a legal remedy that will see the alleged killers punished. He complained of the prolonged nature of case procedures by the Southwest Capital Prosecution authority, which has not yet authorized a legitimate physician to examine the corpse for forensic evidence and thereby write a report about the crime. Furthermore, he felt embittered because of the security authorities' indifference to the case, despite the fact that the police received obligatory orders to arrest the suspected murderers.
The prosecution justified its sluggish pace in the preparation of a criminal report by suggested that the blame lies on the arbitrators, a claim which Fahd rejects. He emphasized that the concerned security authorities in the Al-Amri Area are indifferent to the arrest of the perpetrators although they have received mandatory orders to arrest them.
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