- Title: NGO calls for Yemen human rights investigation into militias
- Date: 28th July 2017
- Summary: PARIS, FRANCE (JULY 28, 2017) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) CO-FOUNDER OF MWATANA ORGANIZATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, RADHYA ALMUTAWAKEL, SAYING: "Peace in Yemen is still possible. What is very sad in Yemen is that peace is always possible but it never happens, not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares. So if there is, in the international community level, if there is a real work to end the war in Yemen then it is possible."
- Embargoed: 11th August 2017 16:47
- Keywords: Yemen Sanaa human rights violations inquiry civil war extremism Saudi Arabia
- Location: PARIS, FRANCE / SANAA AND IBB, YEMEN
- City: PARIS, FRANCE / SANAA AND IBB, YEMEN
- Country: France
- Topics: Fundamental Rights/Civil Liberties,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA0056RMUZBB
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Human rights organisation Mwatana called on Friday (July 28) for an independent international inquiry into alleged human rights violations in Yemen.
Mwatana co-founder Radhya Almutawakel, who came to Paris to ask for support for the inquiry, said all militias were committing violations.
She told Reuters her non-governmental organisation Mwatana, which employs 60 people in Yemen, had documented cases of illegal detentions, torture and forced disappearance.
A Saudi Arabia-led military coalition is fighting the Iran-allied Houthi militia in Yemen. Saudi Arabia and its Gulf Arab allies have intervened in Yemen's civil war since March 2015 in a campaign to restore the ousted internationally recognised government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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