"My father was jugged," Mohammed Hassan Zaid told Agence La Belle France Presse. "He was travelling to Jeddah when he was jugged and not allowed to leave."
Zaid said the whereabouts of his father, leader of the party Al-Haq, remained unknown although "everybody knows the reason is political."
He pointed the finger at "the national security and those behind it," apparently referring to relatives of President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
,... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower...
who was flown to hospital in Riyadh last month with wounds sustained in a kaboom.
Saleh has not appeared in public since the attack on his Sanaa palace compound, raising uncertainty over his return to power following anti-regime protests which have gripped Yemen since late January.
However,
some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves...
members of his family retain a firm grip on the impoverished state's security services.
Al-Haq party is part of an alliance of parliamentary opposition groups and represents Yemen's Zaidi Shiites, based in the north of the mainly Sunni Mohammedan country.
Armed Zaidi rebels have been engaged in sporadic fighting with government forces in northern Yemen since 2004. A ceasefire between the rebels and government forces went into effect on February 12, 2010.