SANA’A, (PNA/Saba) — Interior Minister Abdul-Qader Qahtan met here on Thursday with Human Rights Watch’s deputy director for the Middle East and North Africa Joe Stork.
Qahtan underlined the Ministry’s commitment to protect human rights, especially with regard to the expression of opinion, pointing that the Ministry gives the rights and freedoms a high priority.
He said the new structure of the Interior Ministry created two new departments; one for human rights charged with monitoring any infringement of accountabilities by police and to enhance respect for human rights.
The other department is for children and women which undertakes the children and women affairs and their rights.
Qahtan said that the Ministry rejects any behavior violates human rights both criminals’ arrest or serving the imprisonment period.
The HRW official briefed the Interior Minister on the organization’s annual report.
Stork praised the Yemeni government response with the report’s recommendations and allowing a delegation of HRW to visit prisons to get acquainted with the prisoners’ conditions and identify their needs.