{"id":18938,"date":"2021-03-23T09:30:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T09:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reprieve.org\/uk\/?p=18938"},"modified":"2021-03-23T09:40:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T09:40:15","slug":"yemeni-drone-strike-victim-take-their-case-to-germanys-highest-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reprieve.org\/uk\/2021\/03\/23\/yemeni-drone-strike-victim-take-their-case-to-germanys-highest-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Yemeni drone strike victims take their case to Germany’s highest court"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Two Yemeni men whose relatives were killed in a US drone strike have filed a complaint with Germany\u2019s highest court in the case Bin Ali Jaber v. Germany<\/a><\/em>. The case deals with Germany\u2019s responsibility to protect the bin Ali Jaber family from further attacks involving the US Ramstein Air Base.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Salem and Waleed bin Ali Jaber were killed by missiles fired from a US drone in August 2012. Salem was an imam, and had preached against Al-Qaeda just days earlier. His nephew Waleed was a  policeman. To this day, the US has never formally acknowledged the strike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In March 2019, the Higher Administrative Court in M\u00fcnster ruled<\/a> that Germany must work to ensure that the US complies with international law when using the military base. In November 2020, the Federal Administrative Court overturned this judgement on appeal, and ruled that the diplomatic efforts of the German government would suffice regardless of whether the US drone missions violated international law.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, the plaintiffs Ahmed and Khalid bin Ali Jaber, supported by the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR<\/a>) and Reprieve, filed a constitutional complaint against this ruling to the Federal Constitutional Court. The complaint asserts that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n