The Attorney General, Judge Mohammed Mohammed Al-Dailami, emphasized the completion of the remaining work related to the investigation of crimes committed by the Coalition of Aggression in Yemen.
In his speech on Tuesday at the training course on the procedures for preparing records for gathering evidence and investigation according to the guide for monitoring crimes of the countries of the aggression coalition, the Attorney General explained that the reports received by the Public Prosecution Office about the crimes of aggression amounted to ten thousand and 254 cases, and the victims are 46 thousand and 764 victims.
He pointed out that the files sent to the field to complete the investigation procedures amounted to seven thousand and 217 files, and that there are one thousand and 62 files that were submitted for study to the Office of the Public Prosecutor, calling upon the citizens affected by the aggression who had not previously submitted their complaints, to submit them to the competent prosecution spatially.
The Attorney General pointed to the recent decision, which reconfigured the investigative committees in the provinces, in a way that gives mechanisms to investigate and deal with these crimes more quickly, and in a way that guarantees the rights of the victims.
In turn, the head of the Training and Rehabilitation Department in the Office of the Attorney General, Dr. Khaled Al-Jamra, referred to the steps taken by the Public Prosecution in the course of monitoring, documenting and investigating crimes of aggression during the past years.
He pointed out that the training process in this aspect continues to include members of the prosecution and new judicial officers, in addition to continuing to build capacities in accordance with the rules and developments in the field of national and international legislation and laws, and within the framework of the executive matrix of the national vision and the movement of the Public Prosecution as the first institution in the country to issue a guide to monitor crimes of aggression.
He explained that the course, which is held by the Public Prosecution over a period of three days, with the participation of 27 members of the Public Prosecution and judicial control officers, includes lectures on the legal qualification of war crimes, as well as the preparation of evidentiary records, introducing the privacy of crime scene inspection, and procedural instructions based on investigation files and the Public Prosecution’s conduct of cases of crimes of aggression, monitoring and documentation in accordance with international standards.
Source: Yemen News Agency