Journalists rally to demand release of threads: protest renaming
Sulaiman bin Hidayah Al-Beshawari (Quetta wale, applkication pindi, patent pindi)
March 4,2007
Islamabad (NSN): Local and foreign journalists staged a demonstration in Islamabad on Thursday to demand the release of Y-e-M and R-o-R threads who have been languishing in the infamous trash can and lock-up. It is believed that the Y-e-M thread was handed over to the americans and taken to american detention center in Guantanamo.
Y-e-M was unceremoniously detained by government forces in January 2007 allegedly because of problems in its name when NSN reporters mounted a passioned campaign to raise the profile of Pakistan in the news media. Y-e-M and another thread, the R-o-R were attempting to re-enter pulbic limelight at the BRF.
Y-e-M transcripts were later transferred to U.S. custody from Quetta. Y-e-M has since been brought to the U.S. military facility in Guantanamo Bay, where it is being held.
Y-e-M has got one four year old fan and several keen NSN reporters waiting all the time for its return. Since then neither it was indicted or given any tangible relief. Journalists, holding banners and placards inscribed with slogans for Y-e-M release, and R-o-R unlocking gathered outside the building of Islamabad Press Club and chanted slogans against the United States.
The banners and placards carried were inscribed with slogans "Do not rename threads" and "Justice-the only dream for Y-e-M" and "R-o-R we are with you".
We are here to show solidarity with Y-e-M and his friend R-o-R, Shriva-e-Iman, NSN bureau chief told the demonstrators. Representatives of local journalist unions Sulaiman Bin Hidayah Al-Beshawari and Maulvi Mahdi also addressed the demonstration and condemned the years of detention of Y-e-M.
