Advisory Center for Rights and Freedoms submits international report on violations of Brotherhood’s militias of Yemeni Special Forces in Shabwa
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he Advisory Center for Rights and Freedoms located in Geneva of Switzerland submitted a report to the eminent international panel of experts, and the OFFICE of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the violations and crimes against humanity that are committed by the Yemeni Special Forces affiliated with the Islah Brotherhood militia against unarmed civilians in Shabwa governorate, the report is republished hereunder as follows:
In the name of Allah the Most Merciful
Advisory Center for Rights and Freedoms Geneva, Switzerland
Tuesday, June 16, 2020 To the attention of the eminent international panel of experts on the investigation of violations.
Report on serious violations committed by Yemeni special forces in the southern province of Shabwa.
For the fifth day in a row until Monday, June 15, Yemeni special forces stationed in the directorates of Nissab and Jardan in Shabwa governorate in southern Yemen are committing serious violations against civilian citizens, including extrajudicial killings of a number of political activists, arbitrary arrests of social and media organizations and the confiscation of freedoms during peaceful demonstrations. As a result, a number of houses were damaged, and all five family members were killed and wounded, killing the mother and her unborn child and injuring the father with his two children and a third child of their relatives. The indiscriminate shelling has also caused terror, instilled fear among children, women and the elderly, and disturbed the tranquillity of daily lifecitizens.
It is clear that these violations are being committed in accordance with an approved plan aimed at repressing people and subjecting them to new political orientations of power, which citizens reject, because they do not correspond to their basic aspirations and freedoms, as well as their shortcomings on the presence of their own forces, and the threat they pose to the security of citizens, especially as they are foreign forces in the region, most of whose members are soldiers from northern Yemen and are linked to the Muslim Brotherhood.
On the morning of Thursday(June the 11th), they suppressed a peaceful gathering organized by the citizens of The Jardan area to protest against gross violations of public rights and freedoms by special forces, using excessive force, including the shooting of participants, in which activist Mohamed Abdullahi bin Hazwaswas killed and two citizens were seriously injured, and a number of them were arrested.
On the same day, unknown assailants believed to be intelligence forces assassinated political
activist Mr. Nasr Basir Al-Salhi, from the Mudia district of Abyan province. Yemeni armed forces also killed political activist Mohammed Saleh al-Fayadi al-Awlaki. On May the 18 , they committed the
murder of Talal Farid Mohsen Areek al-Awlaki in the popular market of Nassab.
The Advisory Centre for Rights and Freedoms considers such violations to be crimes against humanity, contrary to the provisions of international human rights law, and calls on the group of eminent international experts to document, investigate and include these violations in its forthcoming report.
Victims are detected according to the type of violation: Names of those killed in the shelling of citizens’ homes:
1) Mrs. Fatima Ali al-Khelaifiand her six-month-old baby.
The names of those injured as a result of the shelling of the homes of citizens:
1) Saleh Salem Bouchmes Al-Shaybah.
2) Child Mohammed Saleh Bousmos.
3) The child Awad Saleh Bousmos.
4) Child Salem Saeed Bousmos.
Names of those killed outside the law (extra-judicial killings):
1) Mohammed Abdullah Qasim bin Haz.
2) Nasr Basir Al-Salhi.
3) Mohammed Saleh al-Fayadi.
4) Talal Farid Mohsen A’a’id Al-Awlaki.
5) Nasser Sanad Al-Tousli.
6) Najib Mahdi LahdiBaawadeh.
Names of injured political activists:
1) Mohammed Fateh al-Diwali al-Awlaki.
2) Mohammed Abdullah bin Hamela.
3) Ali Nasser bin Lakhdar.
Names of arbitrarily detained activists:
1)Sheikh Walid bin Mohammed bin Abdullah bin Farid al-Awlaki, grandson of the Sultan Al-Awalek. And four of his companions.
2) Journalist Saleh Hetlan Al-Hadibi
3) Disabled citizen Khalil Lahnif.
4) Saleh Massad bin Rashid.
5) Awad bin Abdullah al-Briki.
6) Akram Noureddine Khamis Hadir. 7) Awad Abdullah Nasser al-Najjar 8) Salem Ali Mahdi al-Qamishi.
9) Soheb Nasser Baawada.
10) Tamim Nasser Baawada.
11)Sultan Mohammed Salem al-Alawi. 12) Salem Ali Mahdi Al-Marm.
Copy to the OFFICE of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
