Under the auspices of the President Commander Aidarous Al-Zubaidi, President of the Southern Transitional Council, and the supervision of the head of the Executive Committee of the Local Leadership of the Transitional Council in the governorate of Abyan, Mr. Muhammad Ahmed Al-Shaqi,

 This morning, at the headquarters of the Coordinator of the Transitional Council at the University of Abyan, the General Union of Southern Jurists in the governorate, in the presence of Dr.  Dr. Yeslam at night, the Director of Legal Affairs, lawyer Ibtihal Nasser, and the Director General of the Social Affairs Office in the governorate, Mr. Muhammad Nasher.

 At the beginning of the publicity ceremony organized by the Legal Department of the Transitional Council in the governorate, in coordination with the Public Administration,

 Dr. Saleh Al-Marfadi confirmed that the General Union of Jurists for Southerners was subjected to systematic destruction within a series of directions from the Sana'a regime to all southern entities, establishments and institutions, and we hope to rebuild these institutions and entities within the institutional building of the state of the south.

 Dr. Al-Marfadi added that the Preparatory Committee of the General Union proceeded to complete the statute of the General Union of Southern Jurists serving all spectrums of southern society and was not employed for the benefit of a specific party, and aims to unify southern jurists.

 Al-Marfdi referred to the general objectives of the Union to move towards strengthening legal and human rights efforts within the general framework that brings everyone together and restores the law's prestige.

 For his part, Mr. Khaled Al-Abd expressed his happiness with this step, which represents the first nucleus of the Jurists' Union at the level of the southern governorates.

 Adding that we are today in the process of establishing one of the entities that was an integral part of the mass work and the political and organizational work in the south as state institutions.

 Al-Abed indicated that the people of the south are struggling for a strategic goal, which is to restore their state.

 Adding that we have begun to take steps towards restoring our rights by recovering our political, sovereign and military institutions and proving to the world that we are capable of institutional building and coexistence with others.

 He wished the jurists success in their work tasks through this union.

 During the meeting, 9 lawyers were chosen as leadership of the union and 5 for supervision and inspection, and the elected leadership held a meeting for it at the same time to elect presidents and deputies to lead the union and oversight.

 The leadership of the General Union of Jurists for Southerners in the governorate is as follows;

 Lawyer Basem Mohsen Al-Faqir, President

 Attorney Muhammad Ali Aqil, deputy

 Lawyer Raheeb Saleh Hadi is a financial officer

 Lawyer Aref Al-Kassadi is a member

 Lawyer Mazen at night is a member

 Lawyer Dhuizen Alawi Muhammad is a member

 Lawyer Mona Qaid Ahmed is a member

 Lawyer Samah Mohamed Ahmed is a member

 Lawyer Alawi Muhammad Ali is a member

 Oversight and Inspection Committee

 Lawyer Salem Ahmed Badros, President

 Lawyer Morsi Ahmed Mohamed, deputy

 Lawyer Ali Muhammad Al-Bayti is a member

 Lawyer Anwar Abdullah Al-Khidr is a member

 Lawyer Saleh Abdullah Al-Fadhli is a member

 The rest of the departments and bodies will be named and tasks will be defined later.

 The meeting was attended by the Director of the Public Administration, Mr. Omar Al-Harash, the Director of Social Affairs in my transition Abyan, Mrs. Jihan Haidara, Mr. Alaa Saleh Muhammad, Director of the Human Rights Department, and Mr. Fikri Muqaffa, Deputy Director of the Public Administration