Al Houthi Militia kidnapped the President of the Internet Networks Syndicate and the Secretary General - Video
English - Wednesday 25 December 2019 الساعة 06:04 pm
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On Tuesday, the Houthi militia, the President of the National Union of Internet Networks and its Secretary-General, was kidnapped a day after networks partly went on strike in Sanaa, in protest against the rise in Internet prices.
The National Union of Internet Networks condemned, in an official statement, the arrest of Eng. Ahmed Al-Alimi, the president of the union and Eng. Ali Al-Badawi, Secretary-General, by the Houthi Special Security Service, on Tuesday afternoon.
The statement stated that the arrest came a few hours after the end of the meeting, which was chaired by a member of the so-called Supreme Political Council "Muhammad Ali al-Houthi" and the presence of the unrecognized Minister of Communications and Information Technology in the government, "Mesfer Al-Numair" and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Yemen Mobile Company Issam Al-Hamli and Judge Ahmed Saif Hashid, member of Parliament and President of the National Syndicate of Networks and the Secretary General.
The statement said that the aforementioned people received phone calls from the Intelligence and Security Service and asked them to speed the attendance, which is what the president of the union and the Secretary-General did in response to the call of the agency that arrested them upon their arrival.
The union denounced the security and intelligence services to arrest the president of the union and the Secretary-General after the problem between the network owners and the Ministry of Communications was resolved by a member of the Supreme Political Council against the backdrop of the price increase of internet services and the confiscation of network owners ’devices by the Ministry of Communications and the development of a chronic mechanism to address this.
The statement demanded the concerned parties to release the aforementioned, and hold them responsible for any harm that might be caused to them because of this arbitrary measure.
The Syndicate affirmed that the arrest of the Syndicate President and the Secretary General will not discourage the union's cadres and network owners from continuing to strike.
The union called on network owners to continue the process of open strike and stop their networks, activists, interested parties and the general public to support this issue in order to release the detainees and achieve the legitimate demands of the network owners
