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   Sanaa, weekly 10/1/99 (Federation of Popular Forces) -A number of local investors in the Red Sea are being harrassed by a number of officials. Local sources said that the investment companies are compelled to pay to those "pirates" to avoid being out of work. -16 lawyers have volunteered to defend the opposition daily newspaper 'AL RAI AL AAM' that was suspended by the Information Ministry at the pretext of publishing articles harming relations with a sisterly country. -Unknown armed men fired their automatic rifles at the commander of the ninth mechanic brigade stationed in Jauf governorate more than a week ago. The bullets were shot at the commander's car but he was not in it and one of the soldiers was injured in the incident. -Minister of Health Dr. Abdullah Abdul Wali Nasher has said that almost one million citizens have caught malaria in the period September-November 1998. He said that 1,552 persons have died from the disease in various hospitals other than those who died at home without notifying the concerned authorities. -The Yemeni Journalists Syndicate's Central Council has approved the convening of the YJS's second general conference next February 21st. Article Summary:
Sanaa, weekly 10/1/99 (Independent) -Western analysts have said that the abduction of foreign tourists in Abyan that ended a few days ago with the killing of four of them is linked to internal problems rather than international terrorism as speculated by the Yemeni government. -Security forces are still tracing the Jihad elements who escaped following the bloody confrontation to free the western hostages over a week ago in Abyan but no arrests were made so far. -Britain has belittled the Yemeni government's step in sacking its investigators from Aden, saying that it was the result of bureaucracy and that they will return there soon. -A Yemeni citizen got killed by mistake in Taiz ten days ago. The killing took place when a friend of the deceased was cleaning his pistol and a bullet was shot by mistake. Doctors operated on the man for seven hours but they could not save his life.
Sanaa, weekly 12/1/99 (People's Nasserite Unionist Organization) -The PNUO's central committee fixed coming March 14 as the date for the convening of the Organization's 9th general conference. -The Yemeni Socialist Party has warned against attempts by the ruling authority to destroy the country's political arena and cited, in this regard, harassments that its members were liable to in the past few weeks. -The Interior Ministry is still refusing to release seven defendants in the explosion of Al Khair mosque in April last year. No enough evidence justified their continued detention for six months while the constitution stipulates that any citizen should not be detained more than 24 hours without proof of his involvement in a certain crime. -British diplomats have expressed doubts about confessions of the five Britons arrested in Aden lately, saying that they may have been taken under torture.
Aden, weekly 12/1/99 (Independent) -Two Americans were stripped of their belongings in Hadhramaut last Sunday after an attempt to drag them to an unknown destination was aborted when the driver accompanying them managed to escape and called for help. -British press reports have quoted relatives to the Britons arrested in Aden recently as expressing fears over life of one of the detained five who looked pale and exhausted. The relatives claim that the five were tortured to force them to confess that they intended to launch a number of explosions in Yemen. -Director of the taxes department in Ibb governorate was shot at by a group of unknown armed men in front of his house last Monday but luckily he escaped unhurt. -The Ibn Khaldoun Hospital in Lahj governorate refused to hand over body of a deceased citizen to his relatives to bury him until they paid 10,000 rials in return for keeping the body in the hospital's fridge for ten hours. -A number of families have appealed to the President to interfere and secure the release of the kidnapped businessman Abdul Hakim Shamsan who is currently held by the Bani Dhabyan tribe in Mareb.
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Sanaa, bi-weekly 13/1/99 (Independent) -The homicidal department in Seyoun had asked hotels in that govenorate to allocate a room or an office for one of its officers to ensure proper protection to the tourists currently flocking into the area. The request was not welcomed by the hotels' administrators who said that they cooperate with the department without the need for a resident officer. -A senior leader of the Yemeni Congregation for Reform-Islah has affirmed to the paper that no Islah member in Hadhramaut had shifted to the ruling People's General Conference party. He said that if news were true, that the PGC was using money to lure other partisan members to join its membership, then it should be tried for violating the partisan laws. -A speeding car, carrying an army plate, hit and injured five people including three children in Attaq, Shabwa governorate before fleeing the scene. |