Qatar Arrests Yemeni Political Activist After Criticizing UAE in TV Interview

Yemeni political activists reveal that Qatari authorities arrested Yemeni political and human rights activist Saleh Al-Jarmouzi after an interview with Al Mayadeen TV. The reason seems to be his condemnation of the Saudi-led aggression and the UAE late escalation against his country.

Al-Jarmouzi was arrested 10 minutes after his interview with Al Mayadeen on January 22. In the interview, Al-Jarmouzi commented on the first Yemen Hurricane operation, saying that Yemeni drones did not target the UAE’s markets or skyscrapers, and if they were targeted, global corporations would have left and the Emirates’ economy would have collapsed. He also praised the Yemeni approach by saying that “Yemen’s values do not permit attacking civilians and non military facilities.”

He went on to say that Egypt’s Al-Azhar condemned the Yemeni strike, in which three people were killed in the UAE, but had nothing to say against all of the Emirates’ crimes, with thousands of killed civilians in the 8 years of war.

Al-Jarmouzi further said that the UN and Arab Foreign Ministers condemned the Yemeni military operation but had nothing to say for the murder of women and children in their own homes, the bombing of hospitals, the destruction of schools with students still in them, and the killing of students in a bus.

He also clarified that the UN and its organizations say that the biggest humanitarian disaster in Yemen was caused by the “dirty hands of the US-Zionist colonization through its known tools: KSA and the UAE.”

There was also a wide campaign of solidarity with Al-Jarmouzi on social media following news of his arrest, which condemned Qatari authorities and held them responsible for anything that would happen to him.

Source: Al-Mayadeen