YEMEN: TORTURE CLAIMS OVER FAILED EXECUTION

Ashraf, 42, was executed in Yemen, for murder. His son, Jalal Ashraf Mohammed, appealed to all human rights organizations to help investigate the alleged torture of his father during the execution. "The executioner fired many bullets at my father's breast following the instructions of the physician. After my father ceased moving, the executioner took the body and submitted it to the family, along with the burial license, which was to take place in the village,” he said. While transporting my father's body to the car, I felt that my father was still alive; we heard him say: "I am still alive, take me to the hospital." We took him to Al-Boraihi hospital where they advised us to take him to Al-Thawra Hospital. The doctors said that the bullets missed his heart.” Jalal further confirmed that his father was exposed to outrageous injustice and torture. He claimed that men from criminal investigation removed the IV drips from his body, dragged him from the bed and placed him in the vehicle roughly, then took him to the central prison, where he was shot dead in a second execution while family members were absent. He says the process caused agony to his family members. Jalal, who buried his father in the old airport area in Taiz, said that in 2000 his father was convicted of killing his friend using a jambiyya over a banal dispute. He was jailed until the day he was executed.