The Islamist government of Turkey is persisting in providing refuge to radical Kuwaiti Muslim cleric Sheikh Hakim al-Mutairi, a convicted felon who has collaborated with known al-Qaeda figures, advocated for jihad against America and conspired to
GENEVA (15 December 2021) – UN human rights experts condemned today the reported conviction of leading human rights defender and minority civil society activist Idris Khattak, who was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment following an apparent unfair trial by a military court in Pakistan.
For nearly seven years the people of Yemen have been victims of innumerable war crimes and human rights abuses.
Until last month the fact that the UN Human Rights Council’s Group of Eminent Experts (GEE) was documenting crimes by all parties to the conflict and reporting them to the world attested to a commitment to address widespread impunity for such crimes. It signaled to civilians in Yemen that Member States of the United Nations were not turning a blind eye to their suffering.