The General People Congress has renewed its refusal to the transitional justice law presented by the Legal Affairs Ministry.
Senior leaders of the GPC held a meeting on Monday with ambassadors of states that adopted the GCC-mediated power transfer deal, stressing that the draft of transitional justice law must be limited to 2011 in which youth uprising erupted.
Minister of Legal Affairs Mohammad al-Mikhlafi presented a draft law to the cabinet, but it was rejected by ministers of the GPC. The draft was then referred to President Abdu Rabo Mansour Hadi, but it was not issued so far.
The draft provides that the functioning period of the law starts from 1990 , the year in which two parts of Yemen were unified.
Al-Mikhlafi has accused the General People Congress (GPC) led by the former president Ali Abdullah Saleh of standing behind impediment of passing the transitional justice law.The transitional justice law will uncover violations against human rights through hearing from victims, their relatives and witnesses, and create a national registration of violations, al-Milkhlaif said.He further said that victims and their relatives will be compensated according to the law, empathizing that the law will help to pave the road to the national dialogue conference.The transitional justice law is designed to end conflict between Yemenis by compensating the victims of local crises that occurred between 1994 and 2012, while maintaining the immunity clause included in the Gulf Cooperation Council power transfer initiative.Jamal Benomar, U.N. Envoy to Yemen, asserted on June 8 that the transitional law is a demand of the Security Council after the reticence of the UN regarding the immunity given to Saleh