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Association Ma'onah for Human Rights and Immigration (AMHRI)

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    Maonah condemns the crime of assault by Interior Ministry troops on four refugees

    Maonah condemns the crime of assault by Interior Ministry troops on four refugees

    Maonah Association condemns the crime of assault by Interior Ministry troops on four Ethiopians refugees, and strongly condemns the violations of the rights of refugees in Yemen during the past three months, and reminds the Yemeni authorities to respect its international obligations to protect refugees. Maonah Association condemns the crime of assault by Interior Ministry troops on four Ethiopians refugees, and strongly condemns the violations of the rights of refugees in Yemen during the past three months, and reminds the Yemeni authorities to respect its international obligations to protect refugees. Maonah Association condemned the crime of assault by forces belonging to the Yemeni Ministry of Interior on four Ethiopian refugees and injured them through the scattered suppression of their sit-ins in front of the Passport Department office in Sana'a, according to reports of the Yemeni Observatory for Human Rights (YOHR ) And documented four Ethiopians refugees, one of them blind, were wounded, some seriously after the assault from the Interior Ministry troops on Saturday to sit in front of Refugee Immigration and Passport Department in Sana'a to protesting on a number of violations they have suffered there. A press release issued by the Association on Thursday, August 2, 2012 said: The Association condemns this heinous crime that took place against Ethiopian refugee by Yemeni security forces, they confirm that this was not the first crime in this regard, but comes within the framework of the Association monitoring and documenting for tens of violations of the rights of refugees in Yemen, which occur in the context of practices of systematic violations of the Yemeni security forces for the rights of refugees in Yemen, "especially towards Africans of Somali" during the three past months and continuously, and in an awful reflection and systematically counterproductive different from dealing with them during the previous stages, as the most prominent of such violations recorded by the Association are imprisonment crimes of freedoms of refugees outside the framework of the law and the prosecution of the government authorities of Yemen to Somali refugees in the provinces in which they reside and the storming of their camps and all that is a serious backing by government about its international humanitarian obligations under the Protocol and the Convention on the rights of refugees that Yemen have ratified, and these abuses are strongly condemned by the Association and demand the Attorney General of Yemen to open investigations in all the violations that occur against the rights of refugees,,, the Association reminds the Yemeni authorities to respect their moral and legal responsibility to the rights of refugees in Yemen, as the Maonah Association appeals to the international community and refugees support organizations around the world for the need to support Yemen in the face of the burden of hosting more than a million refugees on its territory, especially in these critical circumstances experienced by Yemen. God-appoint and designate. Issued by the Maonah Association for Human Rights and Migration on Thursday, August 2, 2012

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    ASSOCIATION MA'ONAH FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND IMMIGRATION (AMHRI) advocates for the rights of migrants and refugees through evidence-based advocacy, legal support, and community empowerment across 3 international branches.

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