At a time Joint Meeting Parties and a number  of organizations prepare for staging sit-ins and making demonstrations on July 7, Aden's security committee announced that such activities are banned only with getting advance permission from authorities.

The security committee built its decision on past experience when such activities called for refusing Yemen's unity and demanded recognition of what it called the South Yemen issue.

Last Saturday, the security committee chaired by Aden governor Adnan Al-Jifri issued a statement in which it announced banning any activities or demonstrations.

This comes after leaked information by opposition papers as for the intention of JMP and other parties active in the south to demonstrate. However, the committee described such demonstrations as chaos acts.

The statement added that this comes within the frame of responsibility shouldered by state where it has to keep social peace and protect private and public property, hinting that it will not allow any chaos or problems that could harm the interests of people in the commercial and economic capital of Aden.

Further, the committee decided to ban any congregations, festivals or demonstrations only with advance permission from concerned authorities, stressing it will not allow people from outside to enter Aden to demonstrate or make activities that damage the social peace. 

It also warned Aden residents against following these demonstrators, describing those who do as people acting outside the law. Such warnings come after the Supreme Coordinating Council for Military and Civil Pensioners called for peaceful demonstrations in Aden's Freedom Square.

These demonstrations seek to force authorities to free those arrested in the past over similar issues. They are also supported by JMP that aims to pressurize the ruling party, the General People Congress (GPC), and to force concessions especially when the latter halted dialogue with them.