SANAA - A group of solicitors
filed a case at the UN mechanisms regarding war crimes and crimes against
humanity committed in Yemen, a statement by a U.K. law firm said on Monday.
The legal team of the London-based
Stoke and White law firm asked authorities to “further investigate the Sanaa
Funeral Hall attack in 2016, the use of mercenaries by the United Arab Emirates
(UAE), enforced disappearances, and torture in secret prisons across Yemen”.
The applications accuses the
rulers and/or officials of the UAE and Saudi Arabia with “directly involving in
war crimes in Yemen”, said the group in a written statement.
The evidence submitted by the lawyers
includes mercenaries and “Yemeni citizens who worked with mercenary companies
and/or individuals associated with the mercenaries in question”.
The firm called the Sanaa Funeral
Hall attack “as a painful and harsh example of the systematic attacks by Saudi
Arabia-led coalition against civilian targets”.
An air strike hit a funeral hall
in the capital Sanaa on Oct. 8, 2016, killing 140, and injuring at least 525
others.
The legal team aims to call
attention to the systematic torture and rape committed in "secret"
prisons established by the UAE in southern Yemen and is “seeking justice for
the victims in Yemen”.
The applications include victims
of the bloody attack, a victim who was exposed to an “assassination program”
carried out by a UAE-hired mercenary and a victim who has been exposed to many
offenses in the prisons.
The law firm stressed that the
legal process in three cases, including the U.K., U.S. and Turkey on behalf of
its clients, proceeds and these processes are assisted by the further evidence
obtained by the Stoke White.
The statement highlighted that
international humanitarian law and human rights have been systematically
violated in Yemen, and it accused Saudi Arabia and UAE for these violations.
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