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Yemen: Reappearance of Mr Al Masraba, victim of enforced disappearance for over three decades
YEM - News | 14 May 2014
On 14 May 2014, Alkarama submitted an urgent appeal to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention as well as other Special Procedures for the immediate release of Mr Al Masraba who had been under enforced disappearance for more than thirty-three years. Alkarama requested also the intervention of the Working Group to ensure that the Yemeni authorities immediately release all the victims of enforced disappearance since the 1980s and address this serious and systematic violation.
Last year, following the receiving of unconfirmed information that Mr Al Masraba may be still alive, Alkarama submitted a communication on his case to the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearance.
Yemen: Teacher Unlawfully Detained Since Revolution
YEM - News | 21 February 2014
Mohammad Muthana Al Ammari, a 34 year-old Yemeni teacher who had participated, like so many others, in the demonstrations that toppled former Yemeni president Saleh, was abducted from the street in Sana'a on 5 December 2011 by a dozen armed men. After being disappeared and tortured, he was sentenced on 19 October 2012 to two years in prison by a special courtfor political motives after a grossly unfair trial. It has been three years since the Yemeni revolution. And it has been two years that Mohammad has been unlawfully detained in Sana'a's political prison despite having completed his sentence. Today, Alkarama sent his case to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to seek their intervention with the Yemeni authorities on his behalf.
Yemen/USA : when a drone strike turns a wedding into a tragedy
YEM - News | 03 January 2014
On 12 December 2013 at 4:30 pm, a wedding procession composed of 14 vehicles and 70 passengers was targeted by 4 missiles launched from a drone. The result was 12 people killed and 13 injured. Alkarama's representatives, accompanied by the head of the League of families of drone strikes victims visited location of the strike near Aqaba Za'j in the town of Wuld Rabi, a district of Radaa in al- Baydha Governorate in Yemen, on 18 and 19 December 2013 to meet with families of victims and survivors of the strike. The delegation also visited the town of Yakla, where most of the victims originated from.
Yemen/USA: License to Kill; Why the American Drone War on Yemen Violates International Law
YEM - News | 17 October 2013
The use of drones by the USA to commit targeted assassinations in Yemen should be considered, and qualified, as extrajudicial executions.
Geneva/Sanaa - Since the first strike in November 2002, the United States has carried out between 134 and 234 military operations in Yemen in its alleged 'war on terror'. These include strikes by aircraft and drones as well as missiles launched from warships located in the Gulf of Aden. Estimates of the number of people killed as a result of these 'targeted killings' range from 1000 to 2000. Although neither the Yemeni nor the American authorities have put forward official statistics on the number of casualties, Dennis Kucinich, a representative of the U.S. Congress, states that the number of high-level targets killed as a percentage of total casualties is estimated at about 2 percent - the vast majority of the victims being civilians.
Yemen: UN review of US: An opportunity to highlight drone strike concerns
YEM - News | 30 September 2013
Alkarama submitted its contribution to the fourth periodical review of the United States by the Human Rights Committee, which open its 109 session in Geneva on 14 October. The United States' 4th periodical report, will be reviewed between 17 and 18 October.
To recall, the Human Rights Committee is the treaty body in charge of supervising State parties' implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Alkarama's alternative report intends to alert the Committee's experts to the grave violations of article 6 of the Covenant – related to the right to life – committed by the United States in its military operations abroad.