Update - Today, Alkarama submitted to the Special Rapporteur on summary executions the case of Saleh Musa Ahmad Baydani , young Yemeni citizen sentenced to death in Iraq after unfair trial.
The two organisations urge the President Abd Rabo Mansour Hadi and the Prime minister of the coalition government Mohammed Basindawa to take prompt decisions save the life of the Yemeni citizen arrested in Iraq: Saleh Musa Ahmad Baydani (18 years), who was sentenced to death in a trial that lacked the minimum guarantees of fair justice and the rights of the accused. The urgent action is especially needed given that information has reached his family that his life is in eminent danger after the Iraqi authorities ratified his death sentence.
HOOD and Alkarama remind the Yemeni authorities of their constitutional and moral obligations towards 19 Yemeni prisoners in Iraq, who are detained in the Susa prison in the Sulaymaniah province of Kurdistan, like Mr Baydani, and in the Rasafa prison in the capital Baghdad. They were given sentences ranging from 15 - 30 years in jail to the death sentence.
Our two organisations had previously launched an appeal in November 2011 to stay the execution of two detained Yemeni citizens. We also appealed for a review of the harsh sentences against other prisoners, among them is the female Yemeni prisoner Hasna Ali Hussein Yahya (29) who is sentenced to life imprisonment.
Our two organisations also express concern for the decision of the Pakistani government to refer the widows of Osama Bin Laden, one of which is the Yemeni prisoner Amal al-Sada, to the courts on illegal residency charges. This seems like an attempt to excuse the arbitrary arrest of the widows of Osama Bin Laden and their children, who have been held in a secret house in the city of Islamabad without any legal proceedings since May 2011.