The Qatari authorities have arrested Yemeni political and human rights activist, Saleh al-Jarmozi, after his interposition on Al-Mayadeen TV, in which he condemned the Saudi-led coalition aggression against Yemen.
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Yemeni political activists revealed that the Qatari authorities arrested al-Jarmozi 10 minutes after an interview on the Al-Mayadeen TV channel on January 22nd.
Commenting on the first Operation Yemen Hurricane against the UAE, al-Jarmozi said that “the Yemeni drones did not target the UAE markets and towers, which if the drones were directed to them, the international companies would have left and the UAE economy would collapse.”
“Yemeni values do not allow this [targeting of civilian targets], and the leaders in the Sana’a government have declared they cannot target civilians in the way these criminals do.”
Al-Jarmozi denounced the position of Al-Azhar Al-Sharif in Egypt, which condemned the Yemeni strike in which three people were killed in the UAE, but kept silent on all the UAE crimes committed in Yemen, which have claimed the lives of thousands of civilians over the past seven years.
He indicated that “the United Nations and the foreign ministers of Arab countries condemn an attack in which 3 people are killed, but we do not hear a sound or a whisper after the killing of children and women in homes, the bombing of hospitals, destroying of schools with students, and the killing of students on school buses in Yemen.”
Social media websites witnessed a wide campaign of solidarity with al-Jarmozi, after the news of his arrest broke, denouncing the Qatari authorities, and holding them fully responsible for everything he is exposed to.
Qatar has not been a member of the Saudi-led coalition of aggression against Yemen anymore since 2017, and in the past has had heavy diplomatic conflicts with both the UAE and Saudi Arabia. Recently, however, reports indicate a rapprochement between Qatar and the two countries, which may possibly explain the reason behind Doha’s decision to crack down on advocates of the Yemeni cause.
