The Security intelligence conduct in a month time (Part 1) [Archives:2005/902/Opinion]

Abdurrahim Mohsin
The Yemeni security-intelligence system, which is financially, technically and spiritually supported by the democratic and liberal countries vowed to make writers, politicians and opposition journalists live in permanent and severe winter within a framework of an agenda characterized by nervousness and oppressive violence. These are malpractices of allegiant oppression apparatuses filled with hatred to freedoms and rights.

This intelligence system expanded the scope of its activities to the administrative systems and the governmental facilities including education offices in districts, in addition to the establishment of a new intelligence apparatuses that operate beyond the legislative monitoring and legal accountability. Consequently this system tends to work on the basis of a legitimacy of violence and terrorism against the community.

This system reflected its agenda in the real-life situation through the publicly practiced barbaric conduct by its affiliated newspapers, its forces or by faxed or mobile phone letter (the electronic violence).

This system exploits the absence of a reform project that targets Yemen and the lack of a serious international monitoring by the organizations that fight the political totalitarian regime.

This system spoiled the peaceful demonstrations in July 2005 and practiced willful killing, massive arrests and torture of detainees, contravening the constitution and the law. It attacked the rights and freedoms of parties, political organizations, syndicates and civil community organizations including universities.

In countries controlled by totalitarianism in its different forms and shapes, coupled with political and ideological viewpoints, the security intelligence apparatuses cannot express themselves without organized sessions of terrorism against people who oppose it. In Yemen, this system recorded a standard score of barbaric conducts against peaceful writers, journalists and politicians, among them were:

Wahib Al-Nusari:

Wahib is a talented journalist who went to Al-Sab'een Square to cover a peaceful protest by a number of angry people. He was led by beasts from the special military intelligence (a new security system affiliated to special forces and republican guards) to a prison located under Al-ab'een platform building in the Capital. In this place, he was subjected to torture and psychological pressure and badmouthing.

Al-Nusari could not escape the torture of its beasts until a large number of writers and journalists, who have been acquainted with what happened to him, showed their firm solidarity. It was also in this terrible place where journalists Mohamed al-Ghubari (during the 1998 demonstrations) and Marwan al-Khalid (in 2005) were thrown with some of their colleagues. Al-Khalid explained before a number of writers and journalists the behavior of people in control of this jail.

Television Journalists

Najib Al-Shara'abi, Correspondent of Al-Ekhbaria T.V. and Mojib Suaileh, photographer of Al-Arabyia went in a professional mission to take photos of the protest staged by the Textile Factory employees in the capital. As the pair started their task, they were captured by a big military force, beaten and threatened of severe punishments.

The humiliation of people during the daytime and the practice of violence against them by the security intelligence apparatuses have become permissible under the umbrella of totalitarianism. If the rope remains left on the boat and people ignore their freedom and rights that have to be defended by all means available, the situation will grow from bad to worse.

In the next article, we will see how the security-intelligence system in Yemen dealt with its “enemies” the journalists Mohamed Qahtan and Nabil Subei.

The author is a well known Yemeni journalist and opposition activist. Established the anti-regime movment called “Irhalo” means get out. He was a former media person of the presidncey office until he was dismissed recently and harrased because of his oposing attitude and writings.
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