A call for a comprehensive strike in the courts and prosecutions... Hamran's liquidation after Houthi incitement
English - Thursday 01 September 2022 الساعة 02:47 pm
Sana'a, NewsYemen:
One day after he was kidnapped and beaten with rifle butts on Tuesday, August 30, in the city of Sanaa, the judicial and legal community was stunned by the news of the liquidation of Judge Muhammad Hamran, a member of the Supreme Court, at midnight on Wednesday, September 1, 2022 , amid accusations of a Houthi media channel of inciting him.
Early this morning, members of the judiciary announced a comprehensive strike in all prosecutions and courts of all levels, with the exception of the court and the criminal prosecution, denouncing the crime, which they considered to be the result of the direct, repeated and systematic incitement of Al-Hawiya channel, and the interventions of the name of the justice system in the affairs of the judiciary.
A statement on the members of the judiciary confirmed the comprehensive strike until "the trial and execution of the perpetrators in Tahrir Square", and "the closure of Al-Hawiya channel and the bringing of its director and Muhammad Ali Al-Houthi to trial on charges of prior incitement to the crime of murder." In addition to canceling the "Judicial System" name.
The statement called for workers in the judicial authority in Sana'a to "disburse the full dues to judges without exception, and to change the leadership and members of the Supreme Judicial Council and the Judicial Inspection Authority."
The Yemen Judges Club had earlier expressed its condemnation of the attacks, by Iran's arm in Yemen, against employees of the judiciary, while threatening to call for an emergency meeting, denouncing the inaction and silence of the "Supreme Judicial Council, the Ministry of Interior and the political leadership over it and the failure to control its perpetrators," loaded in a statement. These authorities are responsible for "the speedy release of the kidnapped judge, Hamran, within forty-eight hours of its history, and the arrest of the accused in the crime and their referral to the specialized criminal court," according to the text of the statement.
It is noteworthy that Judge Muhammad Ahmad Hamran was appointed in 2004 AD as a member of the Criminal and Personal Division of the Appeals of Saada Governorate, and in 2009 as a member of the Criminal Division of the Court of Appeals in Sana’a and Al-Jawf Governorates, then Vice-President of the Judicial Inspection Authority for the Courts Sector in 2014, and a member of the Supreme Court in 2018.
