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| Amnesty urges probe into report of UAE torture in Yemen |
| 2017-06-23 |
| [Al Jazeera] Human Rights group In a statement released on Thursday, Amnesty called for an urgent investigation after a news report from the News Agency that Dare Not be Named news agency alleged that the UAE financed, armed and trained Yemeni forces responsible for grave human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. violations during security operations against the Yemeni branches of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS, also known as ISIS). The AP documented at least 18 clandestine lockups across southern Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... run by the UAE or by Yemeni forces, drawing on accounts from former detainees, families of prisoners, civil rights lawyers and Yemeni military officials. Hundreds of men were swept up in the hunt for al-Qaeda and ISIS fighters and subject to extreme torture - including the 'grill', in which victims were tied to a spit like a roast and spun in a circle of fire. "A UN-led investigation must immediately be launched into the UAE's and other parties' role in setting up this horrific network of torture," Lynn Maalouf, the director of research at |
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