YEMEN Press Agency

Human Rights Office in Taiz condemns coalition crimes

TAIZ, April 06 (YPA) – Taiz’s Human Rights Office condemned on Thursday a brutal assault against one of women by a gang in Dhaban district of Shamaytain district of the coalition-held city of Taiz.

The office affirmed, in a statement that beating the female citizen, Nasim Ali Fayrouz, is a crime and contrary to the customs and traditions of Yemeni society, and criminalized by all laws, revealing the extent of the deterioration of the security situation in the coalition-controlled areas, which have become a scene of violations in all its forms.

The statement held the coalition and its tools legally and morally responsible for this crime, which has become a public opinion issue due to its cruelty and ugliness, demanding that the lives and property of civilians must be protected.

It called on all international and local organizations concerned with human rights and all interested activists to assume their humanitarian responsibility towards this heinous crime, demanding also to monitor and document these crimes and to work to reduce the deterioration of the humanitarian situation in the city of Taiz.

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