Yemen should take all appropriate measures to counter enforced disappearances and the practice of arrests without warrant, and eradicate incommunicado detention as well as ensuring that all persons held incommunicado are released, or charged and tried under due process.
Ensure that all detainees are accorded all fundamental legal safeguards from the very outset of their detention, including the right to have a prompt access to legal counsel and an independent medical examination, to notify a relative and to be informed of their right at the time of detention, including concerning the charges laid against them, as well as the right to appear before a judge promptly in accordance with international standards.
Yemen should take effective steps so that all its security agencies, including Political Security, National Security and the Counter-Terrorism Unit, are under the control of civil authorities, and that all places of detention are placed under the control of the judicial authorities. Yemen should formally prohibit any private place of detention that does not come under the control of the State, and prosecute individuals who detain individuals in private places of detention.
