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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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This report has been published by Equipo Nizkor and Derechos Human Rights on July 27, 2005.