Sana'a: The National Human Rights Commission at the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights strongly condemned the heinous crime committed by the Islah Party mercenaries in Taiz province last Thursday by executing the prisoner Issa Muqbil Ali Awn Al-Afeeri.
According to Yemen News Agency, the commission considered the documented atrocious crime a blatant and flagrant violation of the provisions of the tolerant Islamic Sharia laws morals and international norms, in addition to being a brazen challenge to the four Geneva Conventions, especially the Third Convention concerning the treatment of prisoners of war.
It explained that the perpetrators carried out a field execution of the prisoner after an illegal sham trial, in a crime that adds to the record of continuous violations by the Islah Party militia against prisoners and civilians in the areas under its control, indicating that what happened confirms the systematic criminal savage terrorist nature of that militia supported by external aggression forces.
The statement pointed out that the crime aims to obstruct international and local efforts aimed at succeeding prisoner exchange negotiations, calling on the international community to assume its humanitarian and legal responsibilities towards the serious violations of prisoners' rights occurring in Yemen.
The commission demanded a number of urgent measures, most notably an urgent and transparent international investigation into this atrocious crime and holding its perpetrators and those who ordered it or remained silent about it accountable, and calling on the International Committee of the Red Cross to undertake its humanitarian duty in following up on the conditions of prisoners and preventing the repetition of such crimes against them.
It also demanded including the perpetrators and the Islah Party leaders involved in execution and torture crimes in the international sanctions lists for war crimes perpetrators and obliging the parties sponsoring the aggression to respect their legal and humanitarian obligations towards the prisoners file and pressuring their mercenaries to stop these systematic violations.
The National Human Rights Commission called on human rights and union organizations and social and media figures in Yemen and abroad to condemn the crime and stand against the war crimes and violations to which prisoners are subjected.
It reaffirmed its commitment to continue monitoring and documenting violations and working to prosecute all war crimes perpetrators before national and international judiciary to ensure justice, prevent impunity for criminals, and preserve the dignity of the Yemeni human.