Almotamar.net - SANAA-Almotamar.net has learnt that the General People�s Congress (GPC)�s parliamentary bloc would meet Saturday to discuss the subject of lifting MP Humid al-Hammer�s parliamentary immunity. The constitutional committee at the parliament is studying lifting his immunity at the backdrop of his threatening the editor in chief of 26 September newspaper Ali Hessian al-Shatter and the case of his attack on a traffic police offer in the capital Sana�a last year.

Reliable sources told almotamar.net that MP Humid al-Hangar behavior have provoked members of the GPC parliamentary bloc considering such behavior are challenge and violation of the constitution, regulations and the law in addition to tits being an attack on freedoms.

The ministry of justice had in November sent a memorandum demanding the lifting of immunity from MP al-Hammer pursuant to a complaint filed by 26 September editor in chief which it had been sent to the constitutional committee by the speaker of the parliament.

Editor al-Shatir had on 10 October received a telephone call from MP al-Hammer with a frank threat of shooting and killing him because of the publication of a poem in the 26 September newspaper in the same month. The publication of the poem was within the freedom of opinion and expression under the democratic climate Yemen is experiencing.