International advocates to defend Yemeni prisoners [Archives:2002/25/Local News]

A lawyer from the International Advocacy Group (IAG), who is engaged in the defense of the Arab prisoners in Guantanamo visited Yemen last week.
Advocate Jamil al-Murshed was here to make contacts with the relatives of Yemeni prisoners in Guantanamo. The objective is to enable families of the prisoners to visit their loved ones at the American base in Cuba.
Al-Murshed told Yemen Times that he made contact with 30 of the prisoners relatives and had already received authorization from other families residing in Saudi Arabia for IAG members to defend the prisoners before a US court.
Al-Murshed criticized the position of the Yemeni government for giving concession to the USA at the expanse of its people. He demanded the government to deal with the question of Yemeni prisoners in a transparent way instead of in secrecy.
He said the IAG wrote a letter to the US president regarding the 356 prisoners who are mostly from Yemen and Saudi Arabia. However, the case moved from one US official to another without any result. Therefore, the IAG decided to file a case before the American Judiciary to examine the charges and to deal with them under the international humanitarian law which forbids putting people in jail for a long time without any trial or legal warrant.
The IAG is headed by former Qatari justice minister, Najeeb al-Naemi and it includes advocates from Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Denmark, Kuwait, France, and USA.

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