119 Civil society Networks and organizations condemned the crime of Tagheer (Change) square in Yemen and the suppression of peaceful gatherings in Yemen, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, and Syria, and wishes that Yemeni president would respond to the legi
Statement VII 20/3/2011
The civil society organizations (119 Civil society Networks and organizations from 15 Arab countries) signed below follow with deep concern the crime against defenseless young protestors in Al Tagheer Square in the capital Sana’a on Friday, 18/03/2011, which claimed the lives of 52 people and more than 600 injured and wounded, and calls upon the Yemeni authorities to respect their commitments to protect the demonstrators and the immediate cessation of all forms of attack on unarmed demonstrators in Sana’a, Taiz, Aden and other cities in peaceful public protests, and the opening of an immediate and transparent investigation with the perpetrators of these crimes and bring them to justice.
They also condemns the forceful elimination of reporters by Yemeni authorities, and stresses that the policy of media blackout to stop the satellite channels, the Internet, telephone communications, close the offices of media correspondents, and / or keep journalists and others was tried in Tunisia and Egypt and did not succeed in aborting the revolutions of the people. The organizations express great concern for the suppression of peaceful demonstrations and subjecting demonstrators to rubber bullets and tear gas in various Saudi cities during the past few days, and the suppress of peaceful demonstrations and killing four demonstrators in Syria on Friday, 18.03.2011, as well as the repressive violent attack by suing force justifiably on the participants in the peaceful stand that February 20th Movement called for in Casablanca on March 13, 2011 in Morocco, where the injuries resulted in dozens of wounded and about a hundred people were detained for a short period.
The organizations express deep concern that the Bahraini authorities detain a number of leaders of political opponents, including Ibrahim Sharif, secretary general of the Waad (Promise) Society and Hassan Mushaima Secretary General of the Haq (Right) Movement, the burning of the headquarters of the Waad Society in Manama and Muharraq, the disappearance of about 100 Bahraini figures, arrest of the bodies and not handing them over to their families or place conditions on the mechanism of funerals (i.e., psychological torture to the victims of excessive use of force by the authorities of the system), the storming of the security forces to Salmaniya hospital and intimidation of the wounded, insulting them, and transferring them to keep them away from the possibility that they are met with the fact-finding commissions, and the attack on and arrested of medical personnel. The organizations invite the authorities of Yemen, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, and Syria to avoid violence and respect their obligations to international law of human rights and international humanitarian law, including the United Nations Basic Principles on the use of force and firearms in the engagement of national law enforcement with peaceful demonstrators, and also calls upon authorities in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Syria to release all prisoners of conscience and detainees and to disclose their place of detention. The organizations demands Human Rights Council to send fact-finding committees to document human rights violations of intimidation, brutality, bloodshed, and crimes against peaceful demonstrators in Yemen, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia.
The organizations wish that the Yemeni president would stop any more bloodshed and respond to the legitimate demands of the people of Yemen, and we hope that the authorities of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar withdraw their military forces from the State of Bahrain and stop getting involved in the suppression of the Bahraini people who are eager for freedom, justice, and equality.
The name of the Networks and Organizations:
1- Gulf Civil Society Forum (included more than 100 Academic, Jurist, Median and Thinker from the Gulf States).
2- The Arab Women Network (included 17 organization in 17 Arab countries)
3- Arab’s coalition against death penalty (included 9 national’s coalitions and 9 Arab countries)
4- Human rights trainers networks in the Arab regions (included 170 trainers).
5- Arab network to protect the human rights defenders (included 18 organization from 9 Arab countries)
6- Election network on the Arab regions (included 30 networks and organizations in 12 Arab countries)
7- The Arab Organization for Youth Lawyers.
8- The Arab Group for Media Watch. (included 12 organization in 12 Arab countries)
9- The Arab Foundation for Supporting the Judiciary Reforms.
10- The Arab Program for Human Rights Activists (APHRA)
11- The Center of Arab Women media Workers.
12- The Arab Coalition for Darfor (include 90 organization from Arab countries)
13- Gulf coalition for International Criminal court.
14- Gulf Forum for Dialogue.
15- Amman Center for Human Rights Studies [ACHRS]/ Jordan
16- Amnesty International/ the Jordan Group. / Jordan
17- The Arab Organization for Human Rights/ Jordan.
18- Al-Badil Center for Studies and Training/ Jordan
19- The Jordanian Network for Civil Society Organization (included 16 organizations). / Jordan
20- The Jordanian network for Human Rights Trainers (included 45 trainers) / Jordan
21- The Jordanian Women Union/ Jordan
22- The Jordanian Association of Democratic Culture. / Jordan
23- The Society of Working Women. / Jordan
24- The Society of Arab Women. / Jordan
25- The Society for the Development of the Family. / Jordan
26- The Al Baqaa Women Charity Society. / Jordan
27- Mosawat Network (included 87 woman associations) / Jordan
28- Alpheniq Center for Economic Studies and Informatics/ Jordan
29- The East and West Center for the Development of the Local Community. / Jordan
30- The Al-Karamah Association Against Violence. / Jordan
31- Rehabilitation Association and charity care. / Jordan
32- Partner Jordan.
33- The Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO) (Consists of 132 human rights organizations). / Jordan
34- The Association School for Mothers. / Palestine
35- The Health Work Committees. / Palestine
36- Organization for Handicap without boarders. / Palestine
37- Conscience Foundation for Human Rights. / Palestine
38- Women’s Center for Legal Aid and Counseling. / Palestine
39- Arab-European Centre for Human Rights and International Law/ Palestine
40- Iraqi coalition for human rights organizations (included 54 human rights organizations./ Iraq
41- Freedom’s coalition in Iraq (included 72 organizations) / Iraq
42- Civic coalition for minorities in Iraq (included 12 organizations) / Iraq
43- Baghdad women society/ Iraq
44- Leadership Women Institution/ Iraq
45- Popular Aid Organization(PAO)
46- Iraqi Human Rights Foundation/ Iraq
47- Human Rights Center in Iraq
48- South youth organization. / Iraq
49- Hamurabi organization for human rights and democracy watch/ Iraq
50- Justice Network for Prisoners(included 32 organizations)
51- Touz organization for human rights studies. / Iraq
52- Congregation of Cultural for Democracy /Iraq
53- Media organization for human rights. / Iraq
54- The Establishment of Iraqi Human Rights. / Iraq
55- Women Congregation of Cultural for Democracy/Iraq
56- Organization of the Islamic group for peace. / Iraq
57- Safa Association for the Development and friendship with the peoples. / Iraq
58- Free Organization for Human Rights. / Iraq
59- Al-Rafedain Center for the guarantee of human rights
60- Arab Organization for human rights in Syria
61- National Organization for Human Rights in Syria
62- Kurdish committee for human rights in Syria (AL Rassased)/ Syria
63- Committee for defending democratic freedom and human rights in Syria
64- Kurdish Organization for defending human rights and democratic freedom in Syria(DAD)
65- Women initiative committee/ Syria
66- Committee “together” to support women issues/ Syria
67- Human Rights Organization in Syria(MAF)
68- Committees For The Defense Of Democracy Freedoms And Human Rights In Syria
69- Syrian Monitor for human rights. / Syria
70- Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of expiration in the Arab world. / Syria
71- Lebanon Society for Human Rights./ Lebanon
72- Lebanon Women Rights Committee/ Lebanon
73- Democrats Lebanese Association of Jurists/ Lebanon
74- Palestinian Human Rights Foundation (Monitor) / Lebanon-Palestine- Egypt
75- Yemen coalition for transparency and anticorruption (included 50 organizations)/ Yemen
76- Center for human rights Information and rehabilitation/ Yemen
77- Yemen organization defending rights and democratic freedom/ Yemen
78- Yemen organization for development and rehabilitation/ Yemen
79- Change organization for Defending Rights and Freedom/ Yemen
80- Yemen center for human rights/ Yemen
81- Democratic social forum/ Yemen
82- Sister hoods for human rights/ Yemen
83- Yemen Coalition for Civil society organizations (included 27 organizations) / Yemen
84- Yemen Network for human rights (7 organization). / Yemen
85- Yemen Foundation against Trafficking in Human Beings. / Yemen
86- Empowerment Organization for Development. / Yemen
87- Yemeni Observatory for Human Rights/ Yemen
88- Yemen Center for International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. / Yemen
89- Free movement of change in Yemen
90- Civil forum in Sudan (include more than 54 organizations) / Sudan
91- Center for gender’s studies/ Sudan
92- Humanitarian Aid Organization/ Sudan
93- Bahrain Human Rights Society./ Bahrain
94- The Bahrain Women Union. / Bahrain
95- Bahrain Society for Transparency. / Bahrain
96- Bahrain Teachers Society/ Bahrain
97- The National Society for the Support of Education and training/ Bahrain
98- National Association to support education and training/ Bahrain
99- Association of Rural Girl/ Bahrain
100- Algerian League for Defending human rights/ Algeria
101- Women Rights Association/ Saudi Arabia
102- Moroccan League for Defending human rights/ Morocco
103- Moroccan Center for Human Rights. / Morocco
104- Moroccan Foundation for Human Rights. / Morocco
105- Kuwait Coalition for International Criminal Court/ Kuwait
106- Libyan League for Defending human rights/ Libya
107- Al Kelmah Center for Human Rights./ Egypt
108- Land Center for Human Rights. / Egypt
109- The Arab Association for Democracy and Human Rights Studies. / Egypt
110- Maat Center. / Egypt
111- Forum for Women Development. / Egypt
112- Egyptian Association for civil education and human rights. / Egypt
113- Tunisian Association of Democratic Women/ Tunis.
114- Bahrain Center for Human Rights.
115- Iraqi Al Raeah Organization for Human Rights
116- Mass Awareness Leque/Iraq
117- Solidarity Organization for Human Rights/Libya .
118- Yemen Society for Academic Freedom.
119- Iraqi Institute for Human Rights.
