By: almotamar.net - SANA'A- Editor-in-Chief and staff members of almotamar.net condemned the behavior of the Islahi leader Hamid al-Ahmer who threatened to kill Ali Hassan al-Shater, editor-in-chief of the 26 September newspaper.
A statement was issued by the website of the newspaper to express solidarity with al-Shater woh received the physical liquidation threat, which falls under the intellectual terrorism.
The statement condemned such behaviors that target journalists and media outlets, especially when they are made by a member of the parliament who has been elected by people to advocate their issues. Such a behavior is uncivilized and doesn't comply with the tendencies of freedom of press and multi-party system as well as respect of human rights, the statement reads.
Al-motamar.net staff editors reject all forms of terrorism and threat that target pressmen.
The statement called on all the journalists, Yemeni Journalists Syndicate, civil society organizations, human rights groups to stand against such behaviors that threaten the lives of journalists and pressmen.
Meanwhile, al-Jumurrya Establishment for Press, Printing, and Publication condemned the death threats leveled at al-Shater, asking the Parliament to take strict procedures against anyone violating the law and posing the lives of others to danger. It also asked security authorities to take legal measures to help prevent repeating such behaviors.
Ali Hassan al-Shater, editor-in-chief of the 26 September newspaper on October 10, at 5:45 pm, received a call from MP Hamid al-Ahmer who threatened to use arms to kill him due to a poem published by the newspaper in its issue No (1291) for the poet Mohammed Ahmed Mansour. Titled "He Who Disavows Kindness", the poem criticizes al-Ahmer, and it was published in the frame of freedom of expression and opinion.
A statement issued by the 26 September newspaper demanded that the Ministry of Interior and Attorney General take all responsibilities of the death threat and its consequences, asking the Yemeni Journalists Syndicate as well as civil society organizations to condemn it.