CID Investigated for Rape Charge
The CID reports to the Ministry of the Interior and conducts most police investigations. The US State Department’s report on Human Rights in Yemen noted, “There were reports that the MOI’s Criminal Investigative Department (CID) routinely used torture to obtain confessions. On February 4, CID forces investigating a theft case in Dhamar governorate rounded up five suspects who were reportedly beaten during interrogation. One suspect confessed to the crime and was referred to the Attorney General’s office for prosecution. The other four were released. Defense attorneys and some human rights NGOs observed that most confessions introduced as evidence against defendants in criminal courts were obtained through torture. Government sources vehemently denied this.”
almotamar.net – SANAA-Almotamar.net has learnt from reliable sources that chief of the prosecution of appeals of north capital secretariat Mohammed al-Qataa directed Monday on questioning the director of criminal investigations in the capital secretariat colonel Rizq al-Jawfi pursuant to a complaint filed b y a woman claiming to be raped during her detention at the investigations department.
Lawyer Abdulrahman Berman holding the case said the directive of the chief of prosecution on interrogation came after a large sit-in conducted Monday by a number of parliament members, legal activists, representatives of civil society organizations, media men and lawyers.
During a meeting of representatives of sitters-in with chief of prosecution the latter told them he had ordered the interrogation of the director of criminal investigations department but he apologized from attending for being busy in a security training course and promised to be present on Wednesday. The lawyer added that the sitters-in lifted their strike to the day of the criminal investigations director.
