Observed by: Mr. Alaa Isam
Yemeni security authorities released 40 southern separatist activists in a jail in the southern city port of Aden, a provincial security official told Xinhua on Tuesday. "The 40 were released late Monday after spending more than a month in Al-Mansura Jail in Aden for their involvement in riots and violent protests against the national unity, security forces and governmental authorities," the official told Xinhua by phone on condition of anonymity. He said all the released were from Radfan city of Lahj province. "The release came upon directives from the Interior Ministry," he added. On Saturday, an armed wing of the Yemeni separatist Southern Movement snatched an army officer en-route from Aden to Sanaa in a checkpoint they established in the southern province of Lahj to press for the release of a number of their activists, a security official of the Interior Ministry told Xinhua. "It is a dangerous development that the armed separatists began to establish their own checkpoints for terrorizing passengers along the safest highway in Lahj that links major southern provinces to the north," the official said on condition of anonymity. Northern and southern parts of Yemen unified in 1990 under a deal between the People's General Congress and the Yemeni Socialist Party. However, the deal fell apart which led to a crisis between the two allies and turned into a civil war in 1994. Sanaa has come under mounting pressure from Washington and the international community which asked the Yemeni government to solve its internal conflicts and focus on fighting Yemen-based resurgent al-Qaida regional wing.
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