79 Civil society organizations and networks condemn the use of force and call the Yemeni authorities to respond to the legitimacy demands of the masses of the people in Yemen
Fifth Statement 8/3/2011
We, the undersigned, strongly condemn the use of force by the Yemeni regime against the peaceful demonstrations of the people; the authorities have exercised violence and repression to confront the peaceful demonstrationists, which led to the fall of the tenths dead and hundreds wounded in dozens cities and governorates.
While we offer our condolences to the families of the martyrs in all parts of Yemen, and we wish a speedy recovery to the injured, we strongly condemn these acts of repression and violence against civilians, and we demand the release of all detainees because of the protests and all political prisoners immediately, and respond without delay to the legitimacy demands of the masses of the people in Yemen.
We also call upon international community to condemn these acts as crimes and atrocities against unarmed civilians, who are eager to achieve freedom, justice and equality in their country. We call on all free and honest people of the region and the world to have a serious and courageous solidarity stand with civil society organizations in Yemen and their right to peaceful expression, demonstrating in order to ensure basic human rights, build real democracy and the rule of law and institutions, and uproot administrative and financial corruption widespread in the institutions of the Yemeni tyrant. And we call on raising the voices of condemnation of all forms of oppression in Yemen as intimidation, brutality, and bloodshed of peaceful demonstrators. We call on taking legal action against the ones responsible for shedding the blood of the martyrs and the injured of unarmed demonstrators, and all those who participated in the crimes of repression and torture. We express our deep concern that the Yemeni regime continues to commit such brutal crimes and we call for immediate cessation and respond without delay to the demands of civil society organizations.
Long live the Yemeni people and their struggle for dignity and freedom.
1- The Arab Organization for Human Rights/ Egypt (included 22 organizations and 18 Arab countries)
2- The Arab coalition against death penalty (included 9 national’s coalitions and 9 Arab countries)
3- Election network on the Arab regions(ENAR) (included 30 networks and organizations in 12 Arab countries)
4- Human rights trainers’ networks in the Arab regions (included 170 trainers).
5- The Arab Women Network (included 17 organization in 17 Arab countries)
6- Gulf Civil Society Forum (included more than 100 Academic, Jurist, Median and Thinker from the Gulf States).
7- Arab network to protect the human rights defenders (included 18 organization from 9 Arab countries)
8- The Arab Organization for Youth Lawyers.
9- The Arab Group for Media Watch. (included 12 organization in 12 Arab countries)
10- Arab society for Academic freedom
11- The Arab Foundation for Supporting the Judiciary Reforms.
12- The Arab Program for Human Rights Activists (APHRA)
13- The Center of Arab Women media Workers.
14- The Arab Coalition for Darfor (include 90 organization from Arab countries)
15- Gulf coalition for International Criminal court.
16- Amman Center for Human Rights Studies [ACHRS]
17- Amnesty International/ the Jordan Group.
18- The Arab Organization for Human Rights/ Jordan.
19- Al-Badil Center for Studies and Training
20- The Jordanian Network for Civil Society Organization (included 16 organizations).
21- The Jordanian network for Human Rights Trainers (included 45 trainers)
22- The Jordanian Women Union
23- The Jordanian Association of Democratic Culture.
24- The Society of Working Women.
25- The Arab Women Organization(AWO).
26- The Society for the Development of the Family.
27- The Al Baqaa Women Charity Society.
28- Mosawat Network (included 87 woman associations)
29- The Jordanian Association of Democratic Culture
30- The Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO) (Consists of 132 human rights organizations).
31- The Association School for Mothers.
32- Organization for Handicap without boarders.
33- Iraqi coalition for human rights organizations (included 30 human rights organizations)
34- Freedom’s coalition in Iraq (included 72 organizations)
35- Civic coalition for minorities in Iraq (included 12 organizations)
36- Iraq’s Organization for Development and Peaceful Gathering.
37- Human Rights Center in Iraq
38- South youth organization.
39- Touz organization for human rights studies.
40- Arab Organization for human rights in Syria
41- National Organization for Human Rights in Syria
42- Kurdish committee for human rights in Syria (AL Rassased)
43- Committee for defending democratic freedom and human rights in Syria
44- Kurdish Organization for defending human rights and democratic freedom in Syria(DAD)
45- Women initiative committee
46- Committee “together” to support women issues
47- Human Rights Organization in Syria(MAF)
48- Committees For The Defense Of Democracy Freedoms And Human Rights In Syria
49- Lebanon Society for Human Rights.
50- Lebanon Women Rights Committee
51- International worker foundation.
52- Yemen coalition for transparency and anticorruption (included 50 organizations)
53- Ahrar movement for Change /Yemen
54- Yemen organization defending rights and democratic freedom
55- Yemen organization for development and rehabilitation
56- Change organization for Defending Rights and Freedom/Yemen
57- Yemen center for human rights
58- Sister hoods for human rights/Yemen
59- Yemen Coalition for Civil society organizations (included 27 organizations)
60- Yemen Network for human rights (7 organization).
61- Civil forum in Sudan (include more than 54 organizations)
62- Center for gender’s studies/Sudan
63- Bahrain Human Rights Society.
64- The Bahrain Women Union.
65- Bahrain Society for Transparency.
66- Algerian League for Defending human rights
67- Women Rights Association/ Saudi Arabia
68- Moroccan League for Defending human rights
69- Moroccan Center for Human Rights.
70- Moroccan Foundation for Human Rights.
71- Kuwait Coalition for International Criminal Court
72- Libyan League for Defending human rights
73- Al Kelmah Center for Human Rights/Egypt.
74- Land Center for Human Rights/Egypt.
75- Human Rights Association for the Assistance of Prisoners/Egypt
76- The Arab Association for Democracy and Human Rights Studies.
77- Maat Center/Egypt.
78- Forum for Women Development/Egypt.
79- Egyptian Association for civil education and human rights.
