Today, 25 September 2020, Ms. Diane Gourdain, Human Rights Officer at GICJ, delivered a joint oral statement with Association Ma’onah for Human Rights and Immigration on the dire human rights situation in Yemen.
In her statement, she stressed that the Houthi militia has been relentlessly abducting, killing and torturing civilians since 2011.
The statement called upon the international community and the Human Rights Council in Geneva to form an investigation committee and a special international court in Yemen to investigate the two crimes of bombing the Yemeni Presidential Mosque in Sana'a in 2011, which were carried out by the Muslim Brotherhood in Yemen, the Islah Party and Qatar, and targeted the former president and senior leaders of the Yemeni state, and also demanded that the committee include an international investigation into the crime of assassinating the former president Ali Abdullah Saleh and the GPC Secretary-General Aref Awad Al Zouka in 2017 by the Iran-backed Houthis.
Ms. Gourdain in the statement emphasised the complete lack of accountability of all these crimes, which has led the Houthi militia to continue violating human rights.
she called upon the international community to implement all Yemen-related UN resolutions, by ceasing to support and arm the Houthi militia. She then stressed the high necessity to create a special tribunal, to hold the perpetrators of these crimes accountable.
