Witnesses, victims and organizations
Cases- Location of case in SG report
- 2020-155-001
- Relevant SG report
- Year of the report
- 2020
- From Country
- Country Geolocation
Latitude: 15.552727
Longitude: 48.516388
- Country Geolocation (linked Cases)
- Yemen
- From Region
- UN body that raised the case prior to the SG report
- UN Human Rights Council: UN Independent Investigation
- Dates of prior UN action
- August 2019
- Type of record
- Unnamed individual/group/organization
- Was the victim a foreign national?
- No
- Was the victim a minor?
- No
- Type of rights defended
- Unclear in SG Report
- Was the victim a civil servant or member of the security forces or of the judiciary?
- No
- Reported trigger of reprisal
The GEE denounced the environment of fear created by some of the parties to the conflict that caused witnesses, victims and organizations to reconsider their cooperation with it and noted the lack of safe spaces for victims and witnesses to speak privately with investigators had a detrimental impact on its work (para. 7).
- Engagement with UN body
- UN Human Rights Council: UN Independent Investigation
- Type of attempted engagement
- Submission of information to UN
- Dates of mentioned reprisals
- Unclear
- Reprisal information
In its report, the GEE highlighted that it had received numerous reports of human rights defenders being banned by the de facto authorities from travelling outside the country, or being interrogated when returning from activities abroad. The GEE investigated violations in 2018 and 2019 against human rights defenders, including women rights defenders, but victims requested that information related to their cases remain confidential for fear of reprisals. The GEE also referred to a fear of reprisals by victims and local witnesses as one important factor frustrating its investigations of reported incidents throughout the country (A/HRC/42/CPR.1, paras. 395, 494, 577, and 609).
- Types of reprisals suffered
- Access denied to UN expert/representative
- Threats/Intimidations (incl. "fear of reprisal")
- Travel restriction
- Alleged/likely perpetrators
- Non-state actor(s)
- Was the reprisal based on new legislation?
- No
- Does the report make general comment about country’s environment for engagement with UN?
- No
- Is the country cited for a "pattern of reprisal" in the context of this case?
- No
- Is a pattern of reprisals mentioned otherwise in the context of this case?
- No
- Does the report cite "self-censorship" as an issue in the context of this case?
- No
- How many times has the case been followed up in subsequent SG reports?
- 0