Ansar Allah (Houthis) should immediately release those who remain in detention and disappeared since 2015, vacate death sentences, and ensure accountability.
Ansar Allah forces forcibly disappeared or arbitrarily and abusively detained the journalists at various points since June 2015.
Six years into the Saudi-led coalition’s war against the Houthi rebels in Yemen, Mwatana, the organization that Radhya co-founded, has documented hundreds of abuses by all sides.
The overwhelming cloud of impunity surrounding the Yemen conflict endangers civilians, normalizes war crimes and ultimately facilitates warring party abuse.
States should help pave the way towards credible accountability and redress for the people of Yemen by renewing and strengthening international investigations into war crimes, other serious violations of international humanitarian law.
Since the torture incident occurred within the geographical scope of the Ansar Allah group (Houthis)'s control, its authorities are called upon firstly to amend their behavior in arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance and torture, and secondly to review their repressive practices against Yemeni civilians.
The parties to the conflict should respect international humanitarian law, perpetrators should be held accountable and appropriate redress should be provided to victims.
Warring parties carried out more than 380 attacks impacting schools and educational facilities in Yemen, Mwatana for Human Rights and Ceasefire Center for Civilian Rights said in a new report.
This report, examines attacks on and impacting schools and education facilities between March 2015 and December 2019 by the warring parties in Yemen.
Joint Submission by Mwatana and Columbia Law School Human Rights Clinic.
