Khereddine told AFP that the girl’s father has been in prison for eight months for allegedly belonging to the outlawed Islamist-inspired movement Rachad. “What’s important is that she has her rights restored, as guaranteed by the constitution,” he added. But Khereddine said Monday that prosecutors had realized the girl was a “witness and not a suspect” in the case.
Rights groups condemned what they said would have been the first trial of a minor connected to the Hirak movement. The teenager had been ordered to appear in court in the eastern city of Annaba on Wednesday, alongside 20 other suspects, charged with attending an “unarmed gathering.”Īccording to Algerian law, the age of criminal responsibility is 18 and minors are tried in juvenile courts. recognized that it had been an error (and) dropped the charges,” Abdelhalim Khereddine said. The Houthis must stop this offensive immediately,” she said.ĪLGIERS: Algerian prosecutors have dropped a case against a 14-year-old girl who was facing trial in connection with the country’s pro-democracy Hirak protest movement, her lawyer told AFP Monday. It could lead to the displacement of half-a-million people. The offensive endangers thousands of civilians, and. “The Houthis have ignored repeated calls from this council and the international community to cease their offensive in Marib province. The US representative to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, told the council during the same session that the Houthis' repeated ignoring of international calls to stop their offensive, their detention of Yemeni employees, and their attacks on civilians in Yemen and Saudi Arabia showed they were unwilling to accept UN-brokered peace efforts. There is a risk that this could open a new chapter of Yemen’s war that is even more fragmented and bloody.” “Since I last addressed this council, the conflict has escalated considerably. Grundberg added that the conflict was intensifying at an unprecedented scale and threatened to undermine peace efforts to end the war, exacerbating the already dire humanitarian crisis. Ansar Allah’s (Houthis’) offensive on Marib is having worrying ripple effects across other frontlines,” he said on Tuesday while briefing the UN Security Council on the situation in Yemen. “I remain concerned about the possibility of urban warfare in the city, which would have terrible consequences for the civilians. The UN’s Yemen envoy Hans Grundberg warned of bloodier urban fighting in the densely populated city of Marib if the Houthis did not stop their offensive, urging warring factions not to shutter channels of communication between them even during fighting. In the south of Marib, less intensive fighting was reported on Wednesday around the Al-Balaq mountain range. With the help of coalition warplanes, troops managed to push back the Houthis and destroyed military vehicles belonging to the militia, local sources said. The heaviest clashes were reported on Wednesday in the mountainous areas of Al-Mashjah and Al-Kasara, west of Marib.
On the ground, local government and military officials said that fighting had intensified south and west of Marib city, as the Houthis stepped up attacks in their bid to overwhelm troops and tribal fighters defending it. Its sorties have also killed hundreds of Houthis on the battlefield, paving the way for troops to thwart the militia’s assaults. Warplanes struck two caves used to store ballistic missiles and four secret drone facilities in Houthi-held Sanaa, the coalition said in a statement carried by the Saudi Press Agency.ĭuring the past few months, the coalition has intensified airstrikes on military sites controlled by the Houthis in the city, targeting ballistic missile depots and workshops used to assemble drones. The coalition also announced launching fresh airstrikes against Houthi targets in Sanaa to neutralize the threat of ballistic missiles and explosive-rigged drones. Planes also hit five Houthi targets at flashpoint sites along the country’s west coast, killing 25 rebels and destroying four military vehicles. AL-MUKALLA: The Arab coalition supporting the Yemeni government said Wednesday it had killed 165 Houthis in the central province of Marib and the west coast, as heavy fighting between troops and the Iran-backed militia continued outside Marib city.ĭuring the past 24 hours, coalition warplanes carried out 24 air raids in Marib that claimed the lives of 140 Houthis and destroyed 15 vehicles belonging to the rebels.