اول تقرير متكامل بإنتهاكات حقوق الانسان في اليمن والجنوب طوال شهر يوليو 2009

[الجبل الشااامخ]

لاتعتمد الترجمة الا بعد التدقيق من قبلكم لانني ترجمت التقرير عبر برنامج

مع التحية

[Ganoob67]

المشاركة الأصلية كتبت بواسطة Ganoob67

حتى نساعد على إيصال هذا التقرير القيم إلى أكبر عدد ممكن من المنظمات و الهيئات الدولية و خاصة في دول الإتحاد الأوربي و الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية... يجب ترجمة هذا التقرير بأسرع وقت ممكن إلى الإنجليزية...
و نتيجة لطول التقرير و صعوبة الترجمة إلى الإنجليزية أقترح أن يتطوع كل من يستطيع الترجمة إلى الإنجليزية و يقوم بترجمة جزء من التقرير... مثلا كل شخص يترجم عشرة أسطر من التقرير!!.... و نضع الترجمة هنا... و عندما تكتمل يمكن إنزالها في موضوع واحد يتم توزيعة على كل المنظمات المعنية!!!
أنا شخصيا سوف أتكفل بترجمة الجزء التالي من التقرير....


بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
التقارير الصادر عن مركز انتهاكات حقوق الإنسان التابع للمؤسسة العربية لمساندة قضايا المرأة والحدث بعدن
رصد لمجمل انتهاكات حقوق الإنسان خلال شهر يوليو من العام 2009، وانتهاكات بدأت كفعل انتهاكي استمرت نتائجه حتى شهر يوليو وهو شهر رصد هذه الانتهاكات
توطئة وشكر
بداية ونحن نستعد لتحويل مجهود أكثر من رائع اتصل واهتم برصد الكثير من الانتهاكات التي طالت حق الإنسان في التعبير وممارسة العمل السياسي، وحق التعبير عن الرأي ومزاولة كل الحقوق التي كفلتها كل المواثيق الدولية والإنسانية والوطنية لا يسعنا إلا أن نتقدم بالشكر لكل من ساهم معنا في انجاز هذا العمل الحقوقي المتواضع والذي نتمنى له أن يكون مقدمة لأعمال رصد قادمة وتقارير يمكن لها أن تكون أكثر شمولا وتوضيحا ودقة وإشارة، لكل هؤلاء نقول شكرا، وشكراً لكل من آمن بحق الإنسان في التعبير عن رأيه لكل من آمن بحق الناس في قول كل ما يعتقدون بصوابه، وساهم معنا في رصد كل انتهاك طال هذه الحقوق التي يؤكد عالم اليوم أن احترامها وصيانتها هي أهم المبادئ التي تقوم عليها الأنظمة الدولية اليوم ،ونحن في مركز رصد الانتهاكات بالمؤسسة العربية إذ نتقدم بالشكر الجزيل لكل رجال القانون والناشطين الحقوقيين والعاملين في مجال الإعلام الذي كان لهم الدور الكبير في إبلاغنا وتزويدنا بوقائع انتهاكات مؤكدة لحقوق الإنسان تم رصدها والتأكد من حدوثها نؤكد على أننا سنحاول وبقدر الإمكان إن نواصل جهودنا المتواضعة والهادفة إلى إيضاح الصورة الحقيقة لما يمارس ويعتمل على أرض الواقع من انتهاكات تطال حق الناس في التعبير وممارسة حقوقها السياسية وربما أحيانا حقها في البقاء...
إننا وعبر هذا العمل نحاول بقدر الإمكان وبما نمتلكه من إمكانيات أن نؤسس لثقافة تحترم حقوق الإنسان وترسى دعائم المجتمع المدني القائمة على احترام كافة الحقوق التي يجمع عليها العالم الحر، وما سعينا لرصد مجمل الانتهاكات التي طالت الأشخاص والأفراد والمؤسسات والجماعات والكيانات والتنظيمات وتسببت في منعها مجتمعة من ممارسة حق شرعي ما هو إلا سعي وجهد جزئي من جهد وسعي متكامل يجب أن تقوم به جميع مؤسسات المجتمع وكياناته، وذلك لأجل الوصول إلى مجتمع يعلي قيمة الإنسان ويحترم حقه في التعبير عن عقيدة يؤمن بها ليس بالضرورة أن يشاركه الآخرون الإيمان بها ولكن يكفلون له حق التعبير عن إيمانه هذا ويحفظونه له ..


مقدمة

"نصب مشانق الموت في كل زاوية"
قد يكون هذا الوصف هو أدق الأوصاف للتعبير عن حالة حقوق الإنسان وحرية التعبير والديمقراطية بشكل عام في اليمن هذه اللحظة، وقد يكون وصف كهذا تمثيلا واقعيا لما ينعكس من سلوك معاش وواقعي وذلك لأن حجم الانتهاكات تعتبر في أقصى معدلاتها صعودا والأكثر حدة بين مجمل انتهاكات حقوق الإنسان في هذا لبلد خلال السنوات الماضية، وعلى الأرجح خلال العقد الأخير.. فما يحدث اليوم من انتهاكات لا يمكن وصفه إلا بأنه نصب مشانق للموت لكل شيء في هذا الوطن فالكثير من الحريات تم تقييدها والكثير من الانتهاكات مورست على نطاق واسع ولا زالت تمارس حتى اللحظة ومرت دونما مسألة، ولم يتم توقيف أيا من الأشخاص الذين تم التأكد أنهم قاموا بممارسة هذه الانتهاكات أو من تم الاشتباه في قيامهم بمثل هذه الأفعال،
- تعددت انتهاكات حقوق الإنسان مابين استخدام الأجهزة الأمنية والجيش والشرطة اليمنية للقوة المفرطة التي تسببت في أحيان كثيرة بسقوط ضحايا مدنيين وإغلاق صحف وحجب مواقع إلكترونية واعتقال الآلاف في ظروف اعتقال غير إنسانية والإفراج عن البعض منهم والإبقاء على المئات دونما توجيه أي اتهام لهم، إضافة إلى قطع معاشات عدد من المتقاعدين العسكريين والمدنيين وحالات اختفاء قسرية .
تتعدد الانتهاكات وتتشكل صورها وتختلف مسمياتها ولكنها أولا وأخيرا انعكاسا لأزمة سياسية واضطراب غالب تعيشه البلد، لذلك فلا بد ونحن نعرض لمجمل هذه الانتهاكات في شرح تفصيلي نجد أنه من الواجب علينا أن نعرض إلى أهم المسببات التي تدفع بمثل هذه الانتهاكات قدما لكي تتضح رؤية وخلفية هذه الانتهاكات ومسبباتها.

و هنا ترجمة الجزء الأول....

Report of the centre of monitoring human rights violations by the Foundation to support Arabic women's- and youth’s interests in Aden.
Tracking of overall human rights violations occurred during the month of July 2009, and those started earlier but lasted until July, the time period of this report.

Preface and Thanks

This report which includes variety of violations of basic human rights such as the right of freedom of expression, right of political practice, right to express opinions and engagement in all the rights that were guaranteed by all international and national charters. First of all, we would like to thank everyone who supported us in completing this intensive report as a start of a more comprehensive and extended monitoring report of the status of human rights in Yemen in general and in South Yemen in particular. We thank all those who believe in human rights and who supported us recording all human rights violations. These are lawyers, human rights activists and journalists who applied themselves to human rights and provided us with proven events of these violations and to whom we would like herewith to make sure and reinforce that will try our best and as far as possible to continue our efforts to uncover all kinds of violations of human rights practiced in Yemen which in some cases truly affected even the inherent right to life.
We try to establish a culture of respect for human rights and help to build up the foundations of civil society based on respect for all the rights the free world agreed on. The human rights violations reported below affect not only individuals but also institutions, groups and entities as well as organizations and resulted in preventing them from legitimate practice of their civil and political rights. Our target is to access a society that values humanity and the human being, respects the right of people to express their faith believes even though the others might not share this believes.


Introduction

“Gallows in every corner”

This might be the best de******ion of the current situation of human rights, freedom of expression and democracy in Yemen reflecting the real life as the violations of human rights increased dramatically in the last decade. Then what happens nowadays can only be described as execution of human rights, many of the freedoms were restricted and the huge numbers of violations experienced were passed without any questioning and no one had ever been arrested due to such crimes despite proven involvement in violation of human rights.
The violation of human rights varied between the use of security agencies, the Yemeni army and the police of excessive force that caused many cases of sustain casualties under the civilian population, the closure of newspapers and blocking websites, arrest of Thousands under inhuman conditions from whom some were released later but hundreds are still kept without charges against them. In addition, there were many cases of cutting pensions of retired military and civilian appointees from South Yemen and different cases of enforced disappearances.
The variation of the violations and their forms and denominations cannot hide the real picture which reflects the deep political crisis and the turmoils the country experiences, therefore, we do think that when reporting such violations, it is necessary to provide clear explanations and background information and to mention the reasons and causes of all these violations.

[Ganoob67]

المشاركة الأصلية كتبت بواسطة الجبل الشااامخ

لاتعتمد الترجمة الا بعد التدقيق من قبلكم لانني ترجمت التقرير عبر برنامج

مع التحية

المعذرة أخي الجبل الشامخ... لو تتكرم و تحذف ترجمتك حتى لا تحصل غلطة و يتم إرسالها من قبل أي من الأعضاء إلى جهات أو منظمات دولية!!
للأسف الترجمة من و إلى اللغة العربية عن طريق الكمبيوتر أمر شبه مستحيل و ذلك للإختلاف الكبير بين اللغة العربية و اللغات الأوربية كما أن اللغة العربية بحد ذاتها معقدة بما فيه الكفاية!!
خالص شكري...

[فتحي بن لزرق]

الاخ Ganoob67

من كل قلبي اشكر لك جهدك هذا ، اعتقد ان وجود نسخة من هذا التقرير باللغة الانجليزية يضاهي وجود التقرير ذاته وكم اتمنى لو ان احد من الاخوة يتكرم بالمساعدة وترجمة ماتبقى ........

في انتظار ترجمة ما تبقى لكي يتسنى لنا توزيعه الى كل المنظمات العالمية

يعجز اللسان عن الشكر

[عبود محمد بادهري]

سمعو الأموات اننا مظلومين لا عنصريين وانه من حقنا الدفاع عن انفساء بقدر ما نستطيع

[Ganoob67]

The political conditions and transitions in Yemen

The violations against human rights in Yemen are closely linked to the general situation of the country including the political situation. It is known that the deterioration of the political situation impacts negatively all the acquired rights of the people that are guaranteed by national laws and international conventions. Here in Yemen, numerous of political crises influence seriously the status of all human rights, which are restricted considerably by the state. As a result of the current critical situation in the country, fundamental human rights are violated widely. Yemen has signed several international conventions and agreements that bind the commitment to provide all its citizens political and civil rights as guaranteed by the national constitution including the right of people to express their believes and to allow individuals to express their opinions and enable the media to cover events and present issues and views no matter whether they agree or disagree with the government.

Yemen suffers many political problems such as the insurgency of Al-Houthis in the north that resulted in five episodes of war causing the displacement of hundreds of thousands from their homes and killed thousands of civilians and soldiers while the signs of the sixth episode of was is approaching very fast. The Yemeni government which claims to fight to end the rebellion in Saada led by followers of Al-houthi, Zaidis group (a branch of Shia), which would undermine the authority of the central government and threat the unity of the country and would subsequently lead to lost of control over the country, according to the government. On the other side stands Al-Houthis who assert that they defend themselves, and accuse the central government in Sanaa and the Yemeni army to wage a devastating war aimed at preventing them from expressing their view against America and Israel and practicing the religion on the zaidis rules. This conflict lasts for about 6 years and caused the death of thousands and displacement of hundred thousands from their homes in addition to the ruin of numerous of districts of Sa'ada governorate in the flames of the conflict that sometimes extends to other provinces.

The situation in the South
The south is experiencing political turmoil and civilian revolt due to the discrimination and repression imposed on them by the central government of Sanaa since 1994, which is the year of the civil war between north and south Yemen that ended with the conquest of Aden by the northern army at the same year. 13 years after the civil war, people started to create political organizations such as the associations of retired military and civilian appointees which started to organize sit-ins to demand on their rights to be treated equally as their counterparts in the north as they were release unfairly from their jobs after the civil war. So, they requested to return to their jobs and get the same rights as military and civilian appointees in the North. Due to lack of responsiveness to the legal demands of these organizations, the people decided to re-organize themselves in the so called (Southern movement) that became a major political power in the South that could dictate its own agenda.
The southern movement decided to follow a “peaceful struggle" to restore what they called (the State of the South) or what is known internationally and politically as (The People's Democratic Republic of Yemen). The path of peaceful struggle was reflected by sit-ins, festivals and demonstrations that became more popular with the time and transformed into a massive public marches that very often ends with deaths and injured due to the use of fire by the police in addition to numerous of prisoners. When we review the occurrences of activities of the southern movement, the picture becomes very bloody as these often results in deaths and hundreds of detainees.
While the forces of the Southern Movement stress that they exercise a constitutional and legitimate right, claims the government that these daily marches are illegal and target the country's unity and security and that many of those who participate in these events riot, which requires the intervention of the police and the army. Very often, the interference of the security forces causes riots and chaos which results in civilian casualties between killed and wounded people and other who might get arrested.
Independent of whether these marches and protests were legal or not, the fact is that each and every moment of these events and their consequences result in major violations of human rights that vary between killing people without opening an investigation, arresting people under inhuman conditions and detention and continued detention without any charges against those who are arrested. The brief overview we present in this report confirms that the security forces by dealing with demonstrations exercise various violations of human rights.

After this introduction we hope that it would be easier to understand the rational behind the protests and the violations of the human rights in Yemen that increases with the deteriorated political situation which becomes clear with the reported numbers of killed, injured and arrested people

[Ganoob67]

و هنا الجزء الثالث...


Initial illustration

This report is a result of huge efforts of a group of activists including lawyers, political activists, journalists, intellectuals and observers who are interested in human rights violations and who track violations that occur in this regard. However, this report is considered as a first step on the way to establish a complete and integral ********ation and monitoring report of all the violations concerning human rights in Yemen. We tried through this report to present the most critical violations that occurred in July this year beside all violations that began prior but continued until or beyond July. In addition, we divided the violations in this report in two groups of violations according to the targeted population and type of violations:
1. Violations against individuals (prosecution, cut of pensions – Threats etc.) and against peaceful activities, meetings and events (assassinations, injuries, suppression of demonstrations, mass arrests and illegal arrests)
2. Violation against the media (prosecute journalists, confiscation of newspapers, suspension and blocking of internet homepages sites)

1. Violations against individuals

The violations ********ed varied between arrests, threats to arrest and even to kill, full cut of pensions or salaries as punishment for civil and political activities. In several cases it was proved that the Yemeni government cut pensions and salaries of 300 southern civil and military appointees in July because of their participation in unapproved demonstrations or “illegal” political activities. Regardless of the fact whether the activities these individuals practiced were legal or not and after reviewing tran******s of the Yemeni penal code and provisions of the Constitution currently in force, no paragraph could be found that allows the central authority to issue orders preventing the payment of pensions and salaries of hundreds of political activists. However, this procedure has been implemented and more than 300 people did not receive any payments for July which clearly violates domestic lows and international rules of human rights.

- (Two months of prosecutions and night manhunts as if I were a thief not an attorney-at-law). These were the words summarized by the lawyer and human rights activist Aref Al-Halmi, who suffered from state repressions without any apparent reasons, as he said. Al-Halmi in known to volunteer to defend the victims of the protests in the South and he overtook many cases such as the killing of Omar Abdulaziz Al-Sobeihi, 17 years old, who was killed by the police while participating in a demonstration against the government in Aden, the former capital city of South-Yemen, on January 13th 2009. Al-Halmi confirms in his testimony to the monitors of the center, that for more than two months he faced various form of harassment amongst others, manhunts and attempts to assassination which lasts up to now, so he is not able to move freely in the city of Aden due to fear of attack by unknown gunmen. This occurred several times in the past.

- It is proven to our Center that on July 1st 2009 members of the Central Security Forces tried to attack the lawyer Nabil Al-Amoody physically at the military point of “Dofas” when he was returning back from Aden. They did not mention any reason for their behavior, however, Al-Amoody stressed in his statement that the reason for it was his known intention to establish a board of lawyers to defend hundreds of people detained by the Yemeni government because of their participation in events and activities of the Southern Movement.

- A lot of southern political activities are not able to return home in the main cities in South-Yemen as they are afraid to be arrested immediately once they return to their homes. One of them is Nasser Ali Annobah, one of the leaders of the Southern Movement, who has left Aden to the province of Shabwa for more than one year. In addition, the lawyer Yahya Ghalib Al-Shouaibi and the writer Ali Haitham al-Gharib, who spent 6 months in prison of the Political Security Agency in Sanaa and were released together with 10 other southern leaders in September last year, they are still chased and they do live in rural area after a number of night raids on their houses in Aden carried out by security forces.

On July 5th the Central Security Forces in Aden raided an apartment in Al-Mansourah and detained group of students and pupils who were in the apartment at that time. Among those arrested were Aref Al-Nasri (31 years old), Ghassan Olib (27) Samid Al-Hanshi (22), Hossam Baabad (25), Waddah Al-Halmi (26), Nasr Al-Sobeihi (22) and Moataz Al-Esayi (16) and his brother Ali Al-Esayi (15). Those young people were detained in the CID in Khormaxer jailed without charge or trial. After the seventh of July (anniversary of occupation of Aden), Most of them were released, however, the security services kept Aref Alnsri, Ghassan Alib and Wadah Alhalmi in jail.

[فتحي بن لزرق]

شكرا ياجنوب ونتمنى ان تتم الترجمة الكاملة ولك كل الشكر والتقدير

[ثائر جنوبي]

التقرير متكامل

نرجو الاهتمام به وايصالة الى حيث ينبغي علينا ايصالة

مشكووووووور يابن لزرق

[Ganoob67]

أليس هنا جنوبيون أخرون يجيدون الإنجليزية؟

و هنا الجزء الرابع....

- Relatives of detainees and the “forcibly disappeared“ due to the occurrences in Sa'ada performed peaceful sit-ins on the freedom Square in the Yemenite capital city, Sana’a to call upon the government for releasing the detainees and elucidate the stay of those who disappeared in mysterious circumstances, but linked to the occurrences in Sa'ada. It has been confirmed that security units belonging to the national security Agency and/or the political security agency in Sana'a, Sa'ada governorate, Al-Jouf and Amran arrested an unknown number of people because of pretended connection to the occurrences in Sa'ada and at the same time some others disappeared in unknown circumstances but very likely related to the occurrences in Saada’s.
- The month of July was a very severe period of time as armed clashes between Al-Houthi followers and the Yemeni army became very frequent and during this confrontations dozens of people were killed or injured in addition of destroying many houses displacing families from home especially in the area of Al-Usaimat.
- Yemeni army forces carried out a wide spread arrest among the followers of the Zaidist fraction and busted dozens of them with regard to the conflict of Sa'ada.

- In the South, and with regard to the Southern Movement, the Yemeni security forces carried out a wide spread arrest during the month of July, where they captured a number of southern leaders in addition to political activists, normal citizens, Journalists and media activists.
Against the existing low, the Yemeni security forces carried out in the fifth, sixth and seventh of July a wide spread arrest in the southern capital city, Aden as well as some other cities in the south in a very aggressive way, which was illegal and contrary to the laws in force. Security forces and army units raided hotels and hostels selecting people from the South without any prove about their participation or even hints about their intention to participate in any protest actions.
The number of people arrested during three days of arbitrary arrests was nearly 7500 detainees who had been deployed on a number of prisons of the Governorate of Aden and due to limited capacity in large state tread stores which are not appropriate as prisons, but, in spite of that the detainees stayed there up to 15 days. Later, the government released thousands of them whiles dozens of them are still in prison up to now.

- It has been proven that security forces while searching a hotel in Al-Shaikh Othman “Hotel Al-Ameen”, they fired at an inmate named Waleed Al-Sunaidi following and argument with the soldiers who wanted to arrest him because his identity card showed that he was from Lahj, a province of South Yemen. Al-Sunaidi was injured seriously and had to be transferred to the intensive care unit of Al-Naqeeb hospital.

- In the evening of July 7th, hundreds of citizens of Addees, city of Al-Mukalla in Hadramout, went in a protest marsh commemorating 15 years since the end of the war between the North and the South. The security forces used live bullets and tear gas against the peaceful demonstrators resulting in the death of a young man called Hassan Afif Al-Wuhiri after being hit by a bullet fired by security forces.

- The government did not release those who were captured during the previous months because of their activities within the Southern Movement so a lot of southern leaders and political activists are still under arrest. One of the most prominent detainees is the former Ambassador of South Yemen in Mauritania, Mr. Qassem Askar Gibran, who has been arrested in the Political Security prison in Sana'a for some months and was put on trial, however, the tribunal was stopped suddenly after two sittings without any obvious reason. Further leaders of the Southern Movement were also arrested including Ahmed Bamualim, Hussein Zeid Ben-Yahia, former Brigadier General Ali Al-Saadi, deputy head of the retired military appointees, former Brigadier General Qasim Osman Al-Dairi, the political activist Fadi Ba'oom head of the Youth Federation of South together with further members of its governing body, Ahmed Alquena spokesman for the Council of the Southern Peaceful Revolution Command and Aidaroos Huqays (leader in the Southern Movement) and many others.
- It has been confirmed to our center that the majority of those detainees are arrested without any charges against them, which is considered a clear violation and an explicit breach of existing lows and the Yemenite constitution as well as international covenants. Furthermore, their relatives were allowed to visit them occasionally and for a few minutes only especially those who are in regular prisons or in prisons of the central security forces. Those who are in the prisons of the political security agency, their relatives can see them only behind barricades and barbed wire fence.