Several arrests in Al Mansoura City, (Sakaniya Area, Nagwa Makawi Area and Abdulaziz area which is beside Sheikh Othman city.)

Yemeni government denies all- no protests, no death, every thing fine, just fine.

Government calls the their rivals in the 1994 war “the forces of apostasy”.

South Arabia Times: Hotel stormed to detain al Jazeera reporter.

Original post: There’s lots of reports coming in from the south including large numbers of arrests- so many that the jails are full and protesters are being detained in military camps. At least one death- a southern leader in what apprears to be a targeted assassination.

SAN’A, Yemen (AP) - One protester was killed and five others injured when police opened fire on a rally in the port city of Aden and detained dozens, opposition members and a local doctor said Tuesday.

Thousands of anti-government protesters took to the streets starting Monday in throughout Yemen’s south to commemorate the quashing of a 1994 uprising that sought the region’s independence.

Southerners complain of discrimination by the northerner-dominated government.
Security forces deployed heavily in Aden Tuesday to prevent protesters from taking to the streets. Still, protesters went out, shouting: «Revolution, revolution, O south.
Some protesters pelted the soldiers with stones, according to witnesses who spoke on condition of anonymity because they feared government retribution.
Local opposition leader and parliament member Nasser al-Khabagi in Aden said police opened fire to disperse the crowd, and fired on Walid al-Sunidi, a movement leader in his 20s, as he resisted arrest outside a local hotel.
Al-Sunidi died from head wounds, a doctor at Aden’s al-Mansoura hospital said, on condition his name not be used because of the tension in the city.
No official comment was immediately available on the incident.
Al-Khabagi said the arrest campaign brings the number of people detained since July 1 to around 250.

Yemen’s south has been rocked by violent demonstrations by disgruntled southerners calling for reform and power-sharing. Although north and south Yemen united in 1990, rebels launched a failed bid for independence in 1994.
Local residents and security officials in the town of Dali, north of Aden, said a protest in the area Tuesday was dispersed when security fired tear gas, injuring three people.
Two security were injured when pelted with stones, the security official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to news media.

Death sentence to 3, imprisonment to others from al-Houthi 3rd cell
Tuesday, 07-July-2009
The Specialised Criminal Court in Yemen issued on Tuesday sentences of death for 3 of the defendants and the imprisonment of 6 other to terms of 7 and 15 years. The convicted are among the third group of the events of Bani Husheish of last year.

In the court sitting held under chairmanship of Judge Muhsin Mohammed Alwan, the verdict against the third group of insurgency gang in Bani Husheish last year stipulated the execution of three of the defendants and imprisonment of six of them to terms of 15 years, 10 years, 7 years and 5 years.

The prosecution had ascribed to the defendants in the court’s 1st session that in 2008 the defendants were involved with an armed gang in implementing a criminal scheme they plotted for committing acts of killing, sabotage , blasting and destruction as well as resorting to violence and exposure to danger the safety of the society and its security. The charge was that they prepared for those criminal acts different types of weapons and explosives and raised money for supporting those acts, as well as digging barricades inside and around the district of Bani Husheish. Those acts resulted in killing and wounding a large number of armed forces and security troops in addition to citizens.

On Monday the court issued sentences of death against seven defendants in the 4th group of Bani Husheish and 15 years imprisonment for six others

Like Ali, thousands of Yemeni women work in unpaid jobs and these jobs include farming, herding, collecting firewood, etc. They are denied any rights. They receive no medical care or education.
Compared to women of rural areas who work in unpaid jobs, the unemployment rates hit high among urban area women. There is just a small number of women who work in public and private sectors.
According to official statistics, women’s unemployment rates reaches 39 percent in Yemen while it is just 16 percent among men.

Women’s political participation
Women National Committee listed limited political participation, representation of women, increased rates of illiteracy and high mortality rates among the key challenges that face Yemeni women.
At the level of parliament, out of 301 members of parliament there is just one woman in Yemen’s parliament. There are only three female members in the Consultative (Shoura) Council out of 109 members.
Similarly, Yemen’s cabinet, which is one of the largest council of ministers worldwide, has two female ministers against 34 male ministers. There is only one female ambassador out of 116 ambassadors.
At the level of local councils, there are just 38 women acting as members of the local councils against 7,594 male members. There are only eight women who act as deputy ministers and 83 work as judges.
Over the last few years, Yemeni women circles have been trying to force the government to allocate women a certain quota in parliament and local councils in a way that helps reinforce women’s political participation.
The last few years have seen deterioration in women’s political participation, especially in local and parliamentary elections despite the fact that women make up about 47 percent of registered voters.
However, the problem is that female voters do not trust their fellow women and most of them prefer to elect male candidates. There are also other tribal and cultural factors which prevent women from electing the candidate of their choice.

Women in work
Despite the fact that women make up about 50 percent of Yemeni citizens at working age (between 18-50 years), women form only 23 percent of workforce and this means that most women at working age are not participating in the country’s development.
For those working, most women are underpaid and they constantly subject to harassments by male employees, especially those who work in male-dominated environments.
Women form 23.4 percent of labor force and they make up about 24.6 of employed people. About 72.1 percent of women are economically inactive. They stay at houses and either their parents or husbands financially support them.
About 92.7 percent of women work in an unofficial sector and they are unpaid. This applies to women working in the fields of agriculture and other associated activities.
Businesswomen make up just 3 percent.
According to the results of the Workforce Survey 2006, the number of working women reached 515,000. Only 5 percent of women work against monthly salaries while 95 percent of women are either unemployed or work in unpaid jobs.

Women and education
Over the period 2004 – 2008, girls’ enrolment in vocational and technical training has not exceeded 1 percent; however, the number of teachers in vocational and technical education has risen to 14.6 percent.
The Yemeni government has introduced a new sector in the Ministry of Education concerned with girls’ education as well as two other administrations: one in the Ministry of Technical Education and Vocational Training & Illiteracy Eradication and Adult Education Department affiliated with the Ministry of Education.
This helped a slight increase in girls’ enrolment in basic education over the years 2007 – 2008. This increase hit 42 percent. As to the increase at the secondary level, girls’ enrolment rose to 34.6 percent.
Similarly, girls’ enrolment at the university level slightly increased over the years 2004 – 2008 to 29 percent after it was 26.7 percent.

According to al Shayea, they were not trained in Somalia- they send fighters to Somalia and Afghanistan and Iraq, but Hamas rejected Yemeni volunteers who came to Gaza.

Yemen: Al-Qaeda reveals new information on attacks against Koreans from the Yemen Post

The recent suicide attacks against South Koreans tourists in Yemen, four of whom were reported killed last March, have been detailed by al-Qaeda in a new video statement released on June 27 entitled “I Have Won I Swear to Kaaba’s God.”

The videotape was released through the jihadi media outlet Al-Malahim (al-faloja.info, June 28), reporting that the two separate attacks against South Korean official investigators and tourists in March were premeditated. An al-Qaeda’s approach which some analysts say it seems destined to damage the government’s reputation.

It also claimed that it had known the Korean security officials’ movements - who came to Sana’a to investigate the earlier assault against Korean tourists - before they raided them while en route to the Sana’a International Airport as leaving Yemen.

“Al-Qaeda’s main plan is to weaken Yemeni President Saleh’s regime, and defeat his government in the field of security and economy,” says Abdul Elah Shayea, a writer and terrorism specialist who conducted in last January an exclusive interview with al-Qaeda’s leader in Yemen, Nasir Abdul Kareem al-Wuhayshi (a.k.a. Abu Basir). “They have the capacity to freely move, collect information, recruit new would-be suicide bombers and carry out a string of suicide attacks.”

As the two teenage suicide bombers addressed final messages to their families – of course, they had been recorded some weeks or months before the bombings - , the video film was showing new different types of explosions whereby they killed Koreans.

Perhaps al-Qaeda here is seeking to prove the Yemeni Intelligence wrong, which claimed that the two suicide bombers were strapping explosive belts on their waists.

Moreover, no one in al-Qaeda’s group in Yemen, says Shayea, “had been trained in Somalia.” Mr. Shayea denied the Interior Ministry’s reports that one of the two suicide bombers had been trained in Somalia. He said,” Al-Qaeda in Yemen actually doesn’t need support from Somalia…the leader al-Wuhayshi confirmed to me in the interview that his group has been sending support to Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and Palestine.”

“Al-Wuhayshi told me – in the interview – that the militant Palestinian group Hamas had refused to allow al-Qaeda’s fighters of Yemeni nationals who entered Gaza when the border line in Rafah was bombed, to stay.”

According to the videotape, Abdul-Rahman bin Mahdi, 18, used a booby-trapped picture frame of a waterfall for killing South Korean tourists at a UNESCO World Heritage site in Hadhramout, in the eastern part of the country, leaving as many as four dead and six others injured.

Three days later, the 20-year-old suicide bomber, Khaled al-Dhayani, targeted a motorcade of South Korean official investigators and victims’ families while on their way to airport of the capital Sana’a after its visit to the scene of earlier blast.

Al-Qaeda in the video film claimed it had set the date, time, place and the ready man to carry out the second suicide attack, showing off teenage boy, al-Dhayani, being groomed as suicide bomber while holding in his hands a medium-sized cassette player, which is full of explosive substances.

Indeed, as they were travelling with Yemeni officials in a three-car convoy to the airport, al-Dhayani blew up the booby-trapped cassette player at the particular place on time, next to the gate of Sana’a Daylami Military Airbase. Car windows were shattered but no one was hurt.

Al-Qaeda said both suicide bombers had been kept under constant surveillance by the government’s secret police a long time before it included them in its martyrs’ brigade.

Abdul-Rahman bin Mahdi was living in the city of Taiz, 170 miles south of the capital Sana’a, and Khaled al-Dhayani was resident near the U.S. Embassy in Sana’a. After they escaped the police, al-Qaeda claimed it had found them while they were roaming the streets in Sana’a.

It’s true, explains Mr. Shayea, al-Qaeda’s militants freely wander around the Sana’a streets. “I had firstly met al-Qaeda’s military commander, Abu Hurairah Qasim al-Raymi, in a ’street’ in Sana’a to review with him the questions I proposed to carry out an interview with al-Qaeda’s leader in the Arabian Peninsula, Nasir al-Wuhayshi, who I met three months afterwards,” he added.

Recently, the Interior Ministry has made public the names of twelve al-Qaeda fugitives it says have planned to carry out suicide attacks in the country.

It is worth noting that four of the 12 wanted fugitives have the original names appeared in the latest issue of Sada al-Malahim Magazine, in last may, giving the two dead suicide bombers their congratulations for achieving the attacks against Koreans.

TEHRAN, July 6 (Bernama) — Iran has sent two more warships to the pirate-infested Gulf of Aden to protect merchant vessels, the official IRNA news agency reported, citing an English-language satellite channel Press TV as reporting Monday.

Iran’s Deputy Naval Commander Gholam-Reza Khadem was quoted as saying on Monday that the dispatched warships were set to replace aging vessels and protect Iranian merchant containers and oil tankers from Somali pirates.

“Pirates have stepped up attacks on Iranian merchant vessels in the Gulf of Aden, so we have decided to send two more warships to patrol the area and help keep everything under control,” Khadem said.

He said Iran’s decision to join the international fight against piracy in the key shipping-lanes off the coast of Somalia has been “rather positive.”

In November last year, Somalian pirates hijacked a Hong Kong cargo ship loaded with 36,000 tons of wheat, which was chartered by an Iranian company, in the Gulf of Aden near the coast of Yemen.

In December, an Iranian warship was sent to the Gulf of Aden in Somalia waters on a mission to protect Iranian ships and fight pirates.

In late June, Iran’s navy prevented an attempt to hijack an Iranian oil tanker by pirates in the Gulf of Aden, IRNA reported.

According to a report by the Public Relations Department of Iran’s Navy Force, pirates in the Gulf of Aden had planned to hijack an Iranian oil tanker named “Hadi,” but Iranian warship arrived in the scene on time to rescue it, IRNA said.

Each year about 20,000 vessels pass through the Gulf of Aden, which links Indian Ocean with Suez Canal and the Mediterranean Sea.

Todays news flash from The South Arabian Times. Following funeral for a slain protester:

The occupation regime steal Tents from Al-Ja’di’s camp

Today at 3 am the occupation forces came into the camp and stole all the tents and their contents. After the funeral that took place yesterday that witnessed hundreds of thousands of people marching and demonstrating for the seccession. - translated by Rasha Rashed

News Flash 2: Demonstrators in Hadramout disbursed with live fire, arrests follow:

Demonstration in algatn,Hadramot , South Yemen
security forces dispersed protesters in algatn, Hadramot calling for disengagement ,

their was guns fire by the security forces and two citizens were injured ,

the demonstration was followed by a larg scale arrests , security forces disperse the demonstrators with batons , tear gas , bullets and rifle butts .

تصريح صحفي : للعميد الركن ناصر علي نوبه
رئس الهيئه الوطنية العليا لاستقلال الجنوب رئس
مجلس التنسيق الاعلى لجمعيات المتقاعدين العسكريين والامنيين والمدنيين
اكد العميد الركن ناصر علي نوبه رئس الهيئة الوطنية العليا لاستقلال الجنوب رئس مجلس التنسيق الاعلى لجمعيات المتقاعدين ان الحوار هوا الوسيلة الانجع لتقريب وجهات النظر بين قوى الثورة السلمية الشعبية المباركة في الجنوب
ودعاء الى احترام الحوار كقيمة حضارية راقية تعكس ايماننا بالتعدد والتنوع الموجود في الساحة الجنوبية .
واضاف في تصريح ادلى به صباح اليوم ان التا سيس للمستقبل بادوات الماضي جريمة تاريخية يجب التنبه لها لان رسم افا ق المستقبل بادوات الماضي لا تستقيم مع العقل والمنطق وواقع ومتطلبات العصر,
وتابع في تصريحه قائلآ
لقد مثلت حركة الاحتجاجات السلميه الجماهيريه المتواصله نبض الشارع الجنوبي وضميره الحي والظاهره الايجابيها البارزه في هذا الزمن المسخن بجراح والام ومعاناة الناس وباتت تحمل معها بارقة امل وتبا شير خير واعده للخروج من النفق المظلم الى الاستقلال والانعتاق من مختلف صنوف الظلم والقهر والعبوديه ومظاهر الخنوع والاستسلام وامتهان كرامة الانسان واصبحت بوابة الخلاص من جبروت سلطة الاحتلال الطاغيه ونظامها الاستبدادي لاحقاق الحق وعودة الامور الى نصابها الصحيح الا وهي الاستقلال واستعادة الدوله
فان هذه الحركه الجماهيريه المباركه لم تكن وليدة الصدفه ولا نبته شيطانيه وجد ت من فراغ ولكنها نتاج طبيعي لتراكمات ومعاناة شعب الجنوب وعلى نحو متطور بسلسله من الاحتجاجات والاعتصامات والمسيرات والمظاهرات التي شهدتها العديد من المدن ومحافظات الجنوب لمقاومة غطرسة التتار الجدد خلال الفتره التي عقبت حرب 94م العدوانيه الظالمه التي احتلت فيها قوات الجمهوريه العربيه اليمنيه الجنوب بقوة الحديد والنار واستباحة ارضه وهويته وتاريخه وثرواته وهدمه منظومة القيم التي كانت سائده في المجتمع الجنوبي وصادرة كل مايتصل بمكوناته الاقتصاديه والاجتماعيه والثقافيه وبصوره ثائريه انتقاميه غادره وتم طرد قياداته وكوادره وعماله وموظفيه وارتكبت
جرائم لاحصر لها فاقت من حيث بشاعتها جرائم الاحتلال الاسرائيلي
ان ثورة الجنوب الشعبيه السلميه قد اخذ ت مداها في التطور والنمو وكانت نتيجه لارهاصا ت قوى شعب الجنوب الحيه , هذه الارهاصات مهدت الطريق لانطلاق انتفاضه الكرامه الوطنيه التي ترمز بها ساحات الجنوب من اقصاه الى اقصاه ولهذا نود ان نؤكد بان مستقبل الشعوب ومصائرها لاياتي بالقرارات الارتجاليه المتسرعه ولا بالعواطف ولنا في قرار دخول الوحده الاندماجيه الفوريه وبشكل متسرع عبره , ولهذا فان ماتحقق يعد انجازا لايستهان به وان وجود هيئات ومكونات الحراك المتعدده انتاج طبيعي لتعدد وتنوع المجتمع في الجنوب وعليه فاننا نخشى من أي قرارات انفعاليه عاطفيه ومتسرعه لدمج هيئات ومكونات الحراك سيقودنا الى العوده الى نظام الشموليه ونطا لب كل الحريصين والغيورين على مستقبل الجنوب ان يدعوا الحوار ياخذ مداه وان يكون أي شكل تنسيقي لهيئات ومكونات الحراك قائمه على روؤى برامجيه واضحه وانتاج طبيعي للحوار الذي اخذ مداه لانه لم يعد هناك متسعا للوقت للتجريب فكفى شعبنا تجارب , لانناء اذا ما اخفقنا في بناء الدوله التي يعلق عليها ابناء الجنوب أما ل عريضه وعدنا مره اخرى الى نظام الشموليه وصراعات الماضي فان شعبنا لن يغفر لنا أي اخطاء نرتكبها بحقه وبحق الاجيال القادمه ولن يقبل لنا أي اعتذار .
وعليه فان أي قرارات سريعه ومستعجله وغير مدروسه ستؤدي بنا الى التخبط والعشوائيه التي نحن في غنى عنها وحتى لانخون دماء الشهداء والجرحى ومعاناة المعتقلين والمطاردين علينا ان نكون عند مستوى المسؤليه ونبتعد عن العواطف والوصايه والتعالي والغرور ونعمل مع كل شركاء الحياة السياسية في الجنوب على صيغة برنامج واضح يحدد معالم المستقبل ويؤمن مستقبل الاجيال القادمه التي خرجت الى الشارع عندما وجدت ان مستقبلها مع نظام الاحتلال مجهولا ويجب الا يكون مستقبلها مع ثورتنا الشعبيه السلميه المباركه هو الاخر مجهولا .
وادان ما تعرضة له مسيرة الامس في الضالع الباسلة من اعتداء ااثم من قبل قوات الاحتلال التي اطلقة الرصاص على المتظاهريين العزل
وحياء ابناء الضالع الذين هبوا يوم امس الى شوارع المدينة ومنعوا جحافل سلطات الاحتلال من تدنيس المدينه الطاهرة وجعلوا مسيرة السلطة تعود خائبة تجر اذيا ل الهزيمة
واضاف ان ما شهدته الضالع امس كان استفتاء حقيقي حيث اصطف ابناء الجنوب كتلة واحدة في الجزاء الجنوبي من المدينة فيما اصطفت سلطات الاحتلال ومعها ابناء مديريات الضالع ذات المنشىء الشمالي في الجزاء الشمالي من المدينة وقد عكست الواقع المعاش الذي يحاول اخفائه البعض وهم في ذلك اشبة ما يكون بمن يخفي عين الشمس بمنخل . فالقضية الجنوبية وهياء الاستقلال هي حقيقة ساطعة كسطوع الشمس في كبد السماء
واختتم تصريحه قائلآ . اننا ننحي هاماتنا اجلالا وتقديرا لشهداء ثورتنا السلميه المباركه ولكل ضحايا قمع الاعتصامات والمسيرات والفعاليلت
ونحيي وبكل تقدير كل المناضلين القابعين في زنازن ومعتقلات الاحتلال دون استثناء
ولنمضي جميعا الى الاستقلال واستعادة الدوله واننا لمنتصرون

شبوة 25 يونيو
2009

Told a news briefing: The Dean of General Nasser Ali alnoobah
Chairman of the Supreme National Authority for the independence of the President of the South
Supreme Coordination Council of the Assemblies of retired military and civilians and security

Said Brigadier Nasser Ali alnoobah
the head of the Supreme National Chairman of the independence of the South the Supreme Coordination Council of the Assemblies of retirees that dialogue Hwa to bring the most effective means of views between the forces of the People’s blessed peaceful revolution in the South

Prayer and to respect the value of a civilized dialogue, we believe in a multi-class and reflect the diversity of the South.
He said in a statement this morning that Alta Cess tools for the future last historic crime should take note of them because the fee Ava s future tools can not be with the past reason and logic and reality and the requirements of the times,
“He said in his statement, saying
We have represented the movement of peaceful mass protests continuous pulse of the street south and conscience and live Alaizhabhe prominent phenomenon in this heated time injuries and pain and suffering of the people and now carries with it a glimmer of hope, Sher Woe best prepared for the exit of the tunnel to the independence and emancipation from all forms of injustice and oppression, slavery and the manifestations of submission and surrender and dignity Rights and now the gate of salvation from the tyranny of the occupation authority and its despotic tyrant of the truth and return to normalcy, but the right of independence and restoration of State
This movement of mass and the occasion were not coincidental or a plant found satanic T. out of the blue, but the result of natural accumulations and the suffering of the people of the south and a sophisticated series of protests and sit-ins, marches and demonstrations in several cities and provinces of the south to resist the arrogance of the new Tatar during the period following the aggressive war 94 m occupied by the oppressive forces of the Yemen Arab Republic and the south strongly iron-fire and violating their land and identity, history and wealth and destroying the value system that prevailed in the society of the South and all related components of economic, social, cultural and Thairih was left retaliatory expulsion of its leaders, cadres and workers and staff were committed
Countless crimes exceeded the heinous crimes of the Israeli occupation
The peaceful popular revolution, the South has taken a range of v in the growth and development and was the result of the precursor of the people of the South v the forces of living, this Alarhasat paved the way for the start of the Intifada, which symbolizes national dignity of the squares of the south end to end and we would like to emphasize that the future destinies of peoples and improvised VELAYATI hasty decisions We have no emotion in the decision to enter the unit merged in the immediate and hasty passage, so that Mathakq was an achievement of the dip and that the presence of bodies and movement components of the production of multiple natural frequency and the diversity of society in the south and it we are afraid of any emotional decisions and hasty emotional bodies to integrate the components of the movement will lead us to return to the totalitarian regime and all those who tread the heart and who truly care about the future of the South to take calls for dialogue and the extent of any form of coordination bodies and the components of a mobility software and felt clear and natural production of the dialogue is a range because there is no room for enough time for the testing of our experiences, to Anina If we fail to building which is of the sons of the south of the broad and back again to the totalitarian system and the conflicts of the past, our people will not forgive us for any mistakes we commit against him and the generations to come we will not accept any apology.
Thus, any quick decisions and hurried and ill-will lead us to confusion and blind that we do not need, and even to the Ankhun the blood of the martyrs, the wounded and the suffering of prisoners and wanted us to be at the level of responsibility and move away from the emotion and glory and Guardianship and vanity and are working with all partners of political life in the south on the wording of a clear program defines the future and believes the future of coming generations that have come into the street when I found that with the future of the occupation regime and the uncertain future should not be a peaceful popular revolution is the occasion of the other unknown.
And condemned, like a march yesterday in an attack involving the glorious example of the occupation forces fired shots at unarmed Almtazahrien
The modesty of people involved who have come to the streets yesterday, the city and the hordes of the occupation authorities prevented the desecration of the city and made the march of the pure power is not an abysmal defeat for Avea
He added that what was yesterday involved in a real referendum, where people lined the south and one block south of the city box lined with the occupation authorities and the people involved with establishing departments in the northern city north of the penalty reflected the reality that they are trying to disguise some of the more closely resembled the who appointed the sun to hide Bmnkhal. South Hia issue of independence is the fact Kstua the sun is shining and the sky in the liver
He finally said. We put our heads in honor and recognition to the martyrs of peaceful revolution and the occasion of all the victims of the suppression of marches and sit-ins, Alfalilt
We salute all the discretion of individual activists who remain in detention cells and the occupation, without exception,
And move all to independence and the restoration of the State and we were victorious

Shabwa June 25, 2009

Soutanlgnoub: Friday Morning 03/07/09 Report on the assassination of Ahmad Ajam President of the National Council of Aqqan

The Occupation forces proceeded from Al-Anad, this morning to break into the house of Ali Ahmed, the president of The National Council for the liberation, independence and restoration of the South, in Aqqan - Al-Musaymar in the Lahj Governorate. They used lived ammo on him and showered his body with bullets, until he fell to his death, right in front of the eyes of his children and family members.

In response to this act, the citizens of Musaymar blocked the main road that connects Aden to Tai’z to express their anger, denunciation and condemnation of this barbaric criminal act, and demanding that those terrorists be prosecuted.

And in the mean time the armed forces of the occupation distributed heavy weapons along the Aden-Tai’z line, as well as on the hills overlooking Aqqan.

Translated: Rasha Rashed
Source: Sout al ganoub

There have been several reports of new weaponry shipped to the South in advance of the protests.