Press Review [Archives:1999/47/Press Review]

Al-Wahdawi, People’s Nasserite, Weakly
1) Parliamentary Committee tends to Condemn GovernorÕs Acts:   The Parliamentary Committee on Al-Udain incidents concluded its field visits to Ibb Governorate and is concentrating on preparing its report and findings. The Committee had received all high officials of Ibb and Sheikh Sadeq Pasha and a number of Udain residents.
The nine-member Committee headed by Sultan Al-Barkani, Chairman of the PGC Caucus was formed to explore reasons behind the dispute between Ibb Governor and Sheikh Sadeq Pasha, to investigate the causes behind dispatching the police campaign in Udain and to inspect Sheikh Pasha’s losses.
Al-Udain District witnessed a number of confrontations between security forces and Pasha’s men. A big military campaign followed the ‘outlaws’ and demolished five private prisons belonging to Sheikh Sadeq Pasha and Sheikh Musawa.
It is noted that developments since the formation of the committee were given personal colors, while sources consider it likelier that the committee tends to condemn the acts taken by the Governor of Ibb because of the way the committee was formed and the mentality of the Speaker of Parliament.
2)Lawyer Asked at Court to Repent:
Lawyer Yassin Abdul Razzaq, member of the group defending Al-Wahdawi, was astonished at West Sana’a Court to hear a member of the public prosecution side representing government asking him to repent to God. The prosecutor, Mr. Ahmed Ghaleb, said that he found it strange that Al-Wahdawi’s lawyer would resort to the International Declaration of Human Rights in his defense, as he is a Muslim. He then asked Mr. Abdul Razzaq to repent to God because he resorted to ‘imperfect rights’ that were written by human beings under the name ‘International Declaration of Human Rights.’
It is recalled that the Yemeni Constitution provides for the commitment of Yemen to international treaties, including the UN Charter and the International Declaration of Human Rights.
Mr. Ghaleb considered that ideas contained in defense arguments of another Wahdawi lawyer, Mr. Mohammed Naji Allaw, an MP, a call to lie. However, Mr. Ghaleb ended by asking God to pardon Mr. Allaw

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