Judge Al-Hamdani: I asked to be reassigned to a court in the capital due to special circumstances, but I was surprised to be transferred elsewhere

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Yamanat – Sanaa

Judge Omar Abdul-Ghani Al-Hamdani said he filed a request with the Supreme Judicial Council in Sanaa for redistribution in one of the capital’s secretariat courts.

He explained that he worked at the Saada Court of First Instance and that his work was regular, until his mother’s critical health condition occurred, which required his almost permanent presence at the capital’s secretariat to provide her with the necessary medical care.

Judge Al-Hamdani stressed that this emergency situation exhausted him financially and morally and threatened his regularity in his judicial work, which prompted him to submit a reasoned request, requesting his transfer to one of the courts of the capital’s secretariat, so that he could fulfill both his family and professional obligations.

He stressed that the parents, the Chairman of the Council and the head of the Judicial Inspectorate, understood his situation and responded to his request for transfer, but he was surprised by a decision requiring his transfer to the East Ibb Magistrate’s Court, which is no less distant from his current location in Saada, and no less difficult, which contradicts the essence of his request and the purpose of his hope.

He stressed that the request for transfer was neither a luxury nor a deception, but rather a request for balance between family duty and professional duty, considering that the decision rendered was as if it punished the judge for his honesty and multiplied his difficulties instead of alleviating them.

He said: When a person finds no other means of speaking than poetry, he expresses the sincerity of his conscience in verses that do not reject fate, but document pain:

We will not request transfers from our board members.
Wherever they appoint us, we will comply.

They move us, but against our will.
And they grant us, but not what we ask for.

I’m not protesting what they’re doing to us.
Let them do, my lords and fathers, what they have done.

He continued: When I place these words in their natural context, I ask for nothing more than human understanding, administrative consideration, and a decision that restores the balance between a circumstance I do not have and a duty I will not abandon.

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