A lawsuit filed by a commercial institution against a leader in the Yemeni Congregation for Reform Party, the Yemeni branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, revealed extortion operations against project owners and capitalists in the governorate located east of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, in which the party dominates the local authorities and uses them as its main stronghold. .

The lawsuit filed by the institution working in the field of printing under the name “New Generation Foundation” with the aim of collecting debts owed by the leader of the party created additional troubles for it when the Brotherhood leader used his influence to stop its activities in Ma’rib, which caused it great financial losses and had a negative impact on it. The social conditions of its workers.

The case called for the intervention of human rights bodies, which called on the authorities in Marib to stop the abuse practiced by elements of the Islah Party against the aforementioned institution.

Ma'rib, which is rich in oil, is known for its exceptional state of stability due to the Saudi-led military coalition's determination to prevent its fall into the hands of the Houthis, which made it a destination for the activities of many capitalists and project owners, especially since its location next to the stable Hadhramaut Governorate, in turn, contributed to revitalizing its commercial activity and enriching it. Its economic cycle.

Human rights and media bodies call on the concerned authorities to intervene to stop the injustice directed at the institution that employs a large number of heads of families

But the Brotherhood’s exclusive control of the governorate’s affairs led it to a kind of exaggeration reflected in the complaints of many merchants and capitalists about the actions of local employees and security forces, as well as members of the party, aimed at imposing pressure and restrictions on them to collect illegal taxes and royalties from them.

A Yemeni local newspaper, quoting sources in Marib, said that the New Generation Foundation was subjected to abusive practices that harmed its commercial activity in the aforementioned governorate after its administration filed a lawsuit demanding that a reformist leader who owns a media organization pay sums of money owed to him amounting to approximately one hundred thousand dollars.

Instead of the leader paying his debt, he resorted to using his influence and closed the headquarters of the New Generation Foundation for a period of more than fifty days, demanding that the foundation write off all his debts.

Human rights and media bodies called on the concerned authorities to intervene to stop the injustice directed at the institution that employs a large number of heads of families.

The National Organization for Rights and Liberties said that it recently followed up on the incident of the forced closure of the headquarters of the New Generation Foundation due to the foundation’s management asking a reformist leader to pay his debts to the foundation.

The organization called on the governor of Ma’rib Governorate and member of the Presidential Council, Sultan Al-Arada, to stop this abuse against the institution, stressing that the closure process is unjustified and contradicts all values ​​of justice, equality, and respect for the property of others.

The organization also indicated that the operations of bullying the authorities in response to legal demands to pay debts reflect an offensive image of the state of justice in Ma’rib Governorate.