In a session of the Human Rights Council, HRITC condemns the violations against defenders in Yemen
Geneva / Special:
In an intervention presented by the Human Rights Information and Rehabilitation Center (HRITC) and the Center Of My Right For Support The Rights and Freedoms – Geneva (CRSRF) in the interactive dialogue session of the report of the Group of Eminent International and Regional Experts on Yemen GEE within the 46 session of the Human Rights Council currently held in Geneva called for the need to highlight the violations committed against organizations or defenders On human rights who are subjected to daily violations due to political orientations, pressures and threats by the parties to the conflict, especially in the capital, Sana’a, which has turned into a major detention facility for all human rights activists and journalists, and the security services systematically prosecute every activist or journalist who has an opinion, indicating the need to include the report of the expert team Next that.
In the intervention made by Hani Alaswadi, head of the CRSRF Center on behalf of HRITC, he thanked the Panel of Experts on Yemen for briefing the UN Security Council last December in a closed session on its third report, in which it detailed the grave violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law and supported its demands to refer a file Violations of the International Criminal Court.
At the same time, the intervention pointed to the weakness of the team’s monitoring and investigation tools due to several factors, including their lack of presence in Yemen, and the limited cooperation with Yemeni civil society organizations, which must be strengthened as these organizations are the best tools in such cases to conduct more comprehensive statistics of human rights violations.
The intervention of the organizations also clarified the continuing deterioration of the humanitarian and human rights situation in Yemen during the past period, indicating that last week, a round of negotiations supported by the United Nations for the exchange of prisoners between the internationally recognized Yemeni government and the Houthi group ended without an agreement, due to the Houthis’ failure to abide by previous agreements related to prisoners and their demand for prisoners other than They are in the possession of the government and their refusal to include journalists sentenced to death on the exchange lists that were supposed to be approved in this round of talks, calling on the international community to shoulder its responsibility in stopping this deterioration.
