NGO calls for Yemen human rights investigation into militias

Record ID: 904475

  • Title: NGO calls for Yemen human rights investigation into militias
  • Date: 28th July 2017
  • Summary: SANAA, YEMEN (FILE - SEPTEMBER 9, 2015) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF SMOKE RISING FOLLOWING AIR STRIKES
  • 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: LVA0026RMUZBB
  • 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.
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