Yemen: Alkarama informs UN Special Rapporteur on Executions of numerous protestor deaths

Alkarama today submitted the names of 20 individuals who were summarily executed by security forces in Yemen during protests in February to the UN, accompanied by a list of 129 injured in the same or similar attacks.

Alkarama was informed earlier in the week of the death of 20 protestors in various cities in Yemen who were killed over the course of February during peaceful protests in Mansoura and Maala City of Aden Province; Khormaksar, El Arish District; Dar Saada District; Sheikh Osman; and the capital, Sana'a. These protests were part of a wave of protests in the Arab world by populations seeking democratic change and an improvement in the human rights situation in their countries.

Protests started in Yemen on 26 January 2011 and have continued ever since. Alkarama has been following these events closely and today submitted the names of 20 people who were summarily executed by the Yemen security forces with total impunity. This, along with a list of 129 injured individuals was submitted to the Special Rapporteur on Extra-Judicial, Summary and Arbitrary Executions and other related Human-Rights-Council-appointed Special Procedures, such as the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Freedom of Expression and Opinion. The number of those killed and injured is 20 as of 26 February 2011, and numbers are likely to continue to rise.

The majority of those killed were shot with live ammunition by security forces who were trying to break up protests. Others were victims of grenade attacks by security forces. Some died of their injuries in hospital. One of the victims was shot by a Government sniper and another was killed during an attack by pro-Government forces on a protestor camp in the middle of the night.

Alkarama is particularly alarmed to note that three minors, aged 14, 15 and 17 feature among those killed, and some as young as 12 are listed among the injured. Below is the list of those killed:

	Name	Name in Arabic	Age
	Mohamed Ali Al Alouani	محمد علي العلواني	18 years old
	Yassine Ali Ahmed Al Jahafi	ياسين علي احمد الجحافي	19 years old
	Mohamed Ali Baashen	محمد علي باعشن	19 years old
	Hussein Al Jahafi	حسين الجحافي	Unknown
	Abdallah Albane	عبدالله محمد البان	27 years old
	Ahmed Sabri	احمد صبري	19 years old
	Abdel Hakim Mohamed Awad	عبدالحكيم  محمد عوض الكلدي	14 years old
	Arif Mohamed Ali Awad Al Yafii	عارف محمد علي عوض اليافعي	20 years old
	Ghassane Ahmed Al Hanashi	غسان احمد الحنشي	18 years old
	Mohamed Mounir	محمد منير خان	Unknown
	Imad Omar Hamadi	عماد عمر حمادي	Unknown
	Salem Mohamed Ali	سالم محمد علي	Unknown
	Hani Mohamed Haitham	هاني محمد هيثم	22 years old
	Mokbil Abdallah Mohamed Al Kazimi	مقبل عبدالله محمد الكازمي	18 years old
	Ali Abdallah Khlaqi	علي  عبدالله خلاقي	15 years old
	Hamid Hassan Hamid	حَميد حسين حَميد	23 years old
	Hayel Waleed Hayel	هائل وليد هائل	17 years old
	Mazen Said Abdo Al Badiji	مازن سعيد عبده البذيجي	26 years old
	Awad Kasem Qaid Al Sarihi	عوض قسم قائد السريحي	32 years old
	Ayman Ali Hassan Abdelkarim Al Naqib	أيمن علي حسن عبد الكريم النقيب	20 years old

This list of those injured is available here.

Alkarama calls on the Yemeni authorities to exercise restraint against protestors, and respect the internationally-recognised right to freedom of expression by allowing protestors to organise and carry out peaceful demonstrations. It recalls that Yemen has acceded to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and must guarantee the right to life, as set out in article 6 of this Covenant.