Yemen: Journalist on loss of life row denied medical treatment
The Huthi de facto authorities are denying Tawfiq al-Mansouri, just one of 4 journalists detained since 2015, who was sentenced to dying in April in Sana’a, everyday living-preserving medical treatment amidst his significant health condition and appalling detention disorders.
Lynn Maalouf, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for the Center East and North Africa, explained:
“The Huthi de facto authorities’ denial of urgent medical treatment for critically ill journalist and activist Tawfiq al-Mansouri is an act of cruelty that violates the prohibition of torture and other unwell-treatment.
“Since his detention and owing to terrible detention ailments, he has experienced serious health issues which include diabetes, kidney failure, coronary heart difficulties, prostate inflammation and bronchial asthma. Extra not long ago we acquired worrying data that he contracted COVID-19 in June, and that since Oct, his health affliction has additional deteriorated as he is being denied critical treatment for his heart issues.



The Huthi de facto authorities’ denial of urgent medical treatment for seriously ill journalist and activist Tawfiq al-Mansouri is an act of cruelty that violates the prohibition of torture and other ill-treatment.


“He really should hardly ever have been imprisoned in the very first location, let by itself sentenced to death. Pending his overdue launch, al-Mansouri will have to right away be granted access to the medical treatment he so desperately needs by medical professionals of his selecting. We even more simply call on the Huthi de facto authorities to right away quash the death sentences issued to the 4 journalists immediately after an unfair demo, to drop all pending unfounded fees and to launch them without hold off.”
History
In April 2020, a Huthi-aligned court docket in Sana’a sentenced 4 journalists – Tawfiq al-Mansouri, Akram al Walidi, Abdelkhaleq Amran, and Hareth Hamid – to loss of life on trumped-up prices together with “spying for Saudi Arabia.” With each other with six other journalists subsequently introduced, they had remained detained, with no cost or demo, from 2015 to 2020, and have been sentenced pursuing a grossly unfair trial. Throughout this time, they have been forcibly disappeared, held in intermittent incommunicado detention and in solitary confinement, and deprived of obtain to medical treatment. At least three of them have been subjected to torture and other unwell-treatment.
The four journalists have been suffering from a assortment of medical concerns, which includes tummy and colon suffering, hemorrhoids and other problems which have not been correctly diagnosed or treated. Tawfiq al-Mansouri on top of that suffers from diabetes and coronary heart illness.
Amnesty has thoroughly documented how the Huthis use the judicial procedure to stifle flexibility of expression, association and religion by handing down severe sentences, together with the dying penalty, for performing exercises these human rights.
Amnesty Worldwide has been campaigning for the unconditional and immediate release of the four journalists on dying row and invites you to get action listed here.
