"The racial discrimination practices of Sana'a regime against people of the South" in a workshop of the Transitional Council Political Department

The Political Department at the General Secretariat of the Southern Transitional Council, and under the auspices of the Secretary-General of the Southern Transitional Council, Ahmed Hamid Lamlas, organized on Wednesday a workshop entitled "The manifestations and practices of the racial discrimination policy of the regime of Sana'a against the people of the South", attended by a number of representatives of civil organizations, jurists, lawyers, journalists and activists.

The member of the Presidency of the Southern Transitional Council, Lutfi Shattara, delivered a speech in the workshop expressing the practice of discrimination and exclusion and its forms executed against the southerners, in which he gave an example of this practice represented in the so-called "National Dialogue Conference" that reflected a clear image of the racial discrimination against Southerners.

The Head of the Political Department, Dr. Khaled Bamadhaf, spoke at the workshop, stressing on the importance of the workshop in highlighting the issue of racial discrimination against the people of the South in all its political, social and economic dimensions.

Bamadhaf urged the participants in the workshop to provide positive ideas that its outputs will help to prepare many files on the subject of discrimination against the South.

For her part, Dikra Ma'tooq, head of the human rights department at the General Secretariat of the Transitional Council, affirmed that laws, religions, and international covenants unanimously condemned the racial discrimination, calling on for the equality of all people before the law.

At the conclusion of the workshop, the participants stressed on the importance of disseminating and publishing the facts about the practices of discriminatory of the regime of Sana'a against the people of the South, and establishing files full of all racial discrimination practices that affected the southern state.