Report by the Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel,
Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Theo van Boven


Yemen

Urgent appeals

1972. On 16 July 2004, the Special Rapporteur sent a joint urgent appeal with the Chairperson-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, regarding Kamel Berkane, aged 31, and Abdul Rahman Ameur, aged 42, both Algerian nationals. According to the allegations received, they are at risk of forcible return to Algeria. They were arrested in Yemen in late 1998 or early 1999 and convicted on 9 August 1999 of conspiracy to attack public premises in Aden. They were sentenced to five years’ imprisonment, which they completed in early 2004. They were sentenced following court proceedings that fell short of international standards for fair trials. Both were held incommunicado and subjected to torture and other forms of ill-treatment.

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