Yemen: National Committee submits its annual report to President Al-Alimi on human rights violations

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Arabian Sea - Yemen - Follow-ups: The National Commission to Investigate Allegations of Human Rights Violations submitted its thirteenth annual report to President Rashad al-Alimi today, Wednesday, in the city of Aden, including documentation of more than 3,003 cases of violations in various parts of the country during the period from August 2024 to July 2025, resulting in 3,766 victims of both sexes. The committee, headed by Ahmed al-Muflahi, presented to the President the most prominent aspects of the report, including monitoring violations that included restricting public freedoms, violence against women, children and journalists, illegal detention, landmine planting, and targeting medical and educational facilities and places of worship. The official news agency "Saba" quoted President Al-Alimi as praising the committee's efforts, stressing the support of the Leadership Council and the government for the continuation of its work and ensuring the implementation of its recommendations to promote the rule of law and protect human rights. He also directed the concerned authorities to facilitate its tasks and the movement of its observers and to deal seriously with what is stated in its reports as a reliable local and international national mechanism. The report indicated that the total documented violations since January 2016 until the issuance of the thirteenth report amounted to about 32,953 incidents, while since August of last year, it has listened to more than 13,192 witnesses and victims, and reviewed 7,768 documents and papers as part of its investigations. According to the report, the committee dealt with many forms of violations, some of which fall under international humanitarian law, and some of which are classified under international human rights law, and paid special attention to cases of killing and wounding civilians, the recruitment of children and violations of their rights, the planting of anti-personnel mines and targeting medical facilities, displacement, enforced disappearance, extrajudicial execution, arbitrary arrest and detention outside the framework of the law, targeting places of worship and education, and imposing sieges on cities to starve civilians.