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- Continuing the series of looting lands in the South by influential persons of the Yemen Arabic Republic, “Aden Press” reported that Al-Hamdani, the owner of the Green City in the southern capital of Aden have looted the land of the Assembly of Shibam agriculture that is owned by a group of southern small investors. It is known that Al-Hamdani managed companies belonging to the Yemeni president and his son.
- Habitants of Khanfar, Zangibar and Hawtah in the governorates of Lahj and Abyan conducted sit-in on August 15th to protest against water shortages. The habitants stated that the government uses cutting off water supplies as a means of pressure to humiliate them.
- The local authority in the province of Lahj released 27 southern protestors who participated in a sit-in against non-admission their recruitment into the army despite the availability of all conditions.
- On August 16th continuing the repression exposed to Al-Ayyam newspaper and its publishers, the Immigration and Passports Office in Aden refused the renewal request of the passport of Mr. Hisham Ba-Shraheel which expired in June of this year. The officials referred to order from Director of Aden Security Brigadier Abdullah Abdu Qiran. The head of immigration and passport office in Aden had already issued an order on May 12th 2009 to ban both Hisham Bashraheel editor of "Al-Ayyam Newspaper" and his son Hani Bashraheel editor of "Al-Ayyam Sport" from leaving the country and to arrest them in case they attempt to leave the country. Just for information, Mr. Hisham Bashraheel suffers from several health problems and underwent open-heart surgery in Saudi Arabia and needs to see the surgeon in the hospital where the operation was performed for follow up checks every six months.
- The political security office transferred the file of the journalist Salah Al-Saqladi, editor of the network Aden-News and representative of the organization “The Change” in Aden, to the State Security Prosecution. Mr. Al-Saqladi was arrested three months ago when officers of the political security office attacked him in his house in Khormakser, Aden, where he was beaten and humiliated in front of his mother, his children and his wife and then transferred to the Yemeni capital Sana’a. He is in a cell in a prison belonging to the political security. Sources reported that he was tortured psychologically and physically.
- The journalist Fouad Raashid, editor of Al-Mukalla Press is still detained since May 4th and he was transferred from Hadramout to Sanaa and kept also in a prison belonging to political security. No visits were allowed to him and no further information could be obtained about the condition of his arrest.
- On August 19th Hundreds protested in Al-Dhalii demanding on the release of detainees who were arrested for protest activities in the South.
- In the first week of Ramadan habitants of Aden demonstrated in several parts of the city to protest against continued water cut for weeks causing water bottlenecks, especially with the onset of the holy month, Ramadan. The government repressed the protests violently using bullets and tear gas, killing a young man named Ahmed Ali Marmash (16 years), injuring 5 others and arresting dozens others.
- In the following days, August 20th to August 27th, numerous of protest actions took place in the Governorate of Aden against the violent repression of the protests and to demand the release of the detainees.
- On August 27th Yemeni occupying forces attempted to prevent the establishment of a protest action in Al-Huseen, Al-Dhalii which led to clash between military forces and protestors. Finally it was possible to conduct the event but after detention of 5 protestors who were taken by the military forces.
- On August 28th, one person was killed and three others wounded in Radfan, Lahj during a fire exchange between the security of the Directorate of Habail Jabr, and armed guards who abducted a post vehicle to protest against the cut of their salaries by the government.
- ON August 29th the authority in Karish, Lahj, released the political activist Ahmad Salim Al-Wuhaishi who was arrested due to his participation in a previous protest action demanding the release of all southern detainees and the stop of the repression of Al-Ayyam newspaper. He was brought to trial and sent to prison for two months. Al-Wuhaishi reported his suffering from the arrest and the conditions in prison as well as the violations against the southern detainee’s imprisonment in general.
- On August 30th massive protest actions took place in Zangibar against the repetitive water and electricity cut.
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