almotamar.net - SANAA-Parliamentary sources said speaker of the parliament Sheikh Abdullah Bin Hussein al-Ahmar sent Wednesday to the constitutional committee a demand for lifting immunity from parliament member Hamid al-Ahmar proposed by the minister of justice pursuant to complaint filed by editor in chief of 26 September newspaper in the case of a threat of liquidation he received on telephone from Hamid al-Ahmar.

The source said the constitutional committee in the parliament is entrusted with studying the demand before returning it to again to the parliament for voting on lifting the immunity, adding to almotamar.net the speaker referred the file along with previous files to the committee.

The parliament asked the committee to consider the demand so that the prosecution will be able to take legally necessary measures concerning the complaint of journalist Ali al-Shatir in the case no. 7 for the year 2006 to appeals committee at south of the capital secretariat.
The demands for lifting immunity of MP Hamid at the backdrop of threats of physical liquidation of the editor in chief of 26 September newspaper, organ of the defence Ministry in a telephone call that included part of the threat of killing as an offence against al-Shatir. The threat came after the newspaper publication of a poem by Mohammed Ahmed Masnsour, which Hamid al-Ahmar considered as insulting his person whereas the newspaper said it was a subject of opinion.

It is to be recalled that the threats and waving with the use of gunshots by a parliament, member in response to a published poem, as a case that instigated a large-scale resentment among political and media circles in Yemen.