Articles for Yemen

Yemen: Journalists suffer persecution for reporting on protests

Alkarama today submitted the cases of 7 journalists, including 2 women, who have suffered persecution because of their activities reporting on, and participating in, protests in Yemen to the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression. These journalists have been subjected to various type of harassment including being enforcedly disappeared, detained arbitrarily, arrested, and received death threats.

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29 Jul 2011
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Yemen: Alkarama provides information about the regime's crimes to the UN Human Rights Mission

Through its office in Yemen Alkarama has in cooperation with local human rights and civil society organizations presented a legal dossier to the Mission of the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the United Nations, which has been appointed to evaluate the human rights situation in Yemen, where the UN Mission is cu
05 Jul 2011
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Yemen: extra-judicial executions on the rise

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The excessive use of force by the Yemeni authorities has led to the deaths of hundreds of persons since protests began 26 January 2011. There has been a wave of peaceful popular protests in Yemen calling for the removal of President Saleh from power.
20 May 2011
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Yemen: Assassination attempt against Al-Humaiqani

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Abdul Wahab Al-Humaikani,
25 Apr 2011
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Yemen: Moroccan national hospitalised following hunger strike

Hicham Gherras, a 43-year-old Moroccan national, was arrested by Political Security agents on 18 February 2011 in Sanaa. Despite promises that he would be freed, he is currently detained and subject to torture. Subsequently, he began a hunger strike on 10 April 2011 and has since been hospitalised.

On 20 April 2011 Alkarama addressed an urgent appeal to the Special Rapporteur on Torture, requesting his intervention with the Yemeni authorities in order that he be freed immediately - or at least that he be charged a competent legal authority.

21 Apr 2011
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Yemen: Security forces beat child to death in front of his father

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15-year-old Muhayb Abdallah Husayn Al-Ya'uri was brutally beaten to death by security agents in Sanaa on Monday 28 March 2011. The tragedy has rocked Yemen, which is currently under a state of emergency, as protests calling for the ouster of President Ali Salih continue across the nation.

30 Mar 2011
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Yemen: Scores killed, thousands injured in ongoing protests

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Alkarama is extremely concerned at the continued degradation of the human rights situation in Yemen. Close to 50 people were killed and thousands injured in ongoing protests calling for political and legal reforms in Yemen.
23 Mar 2011
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Yemen: Protesters killed as Salih's regime funds "thugs"

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10 Mar 2011
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Yemen: Alkarama informs UN Special Rapporteur on Executions of numerous protestor deaths

Alkarama today submitted the names of 20 individuals who were summarily executed by security forces in Yemen during protests in February to the UN, accompanied by a list of 129 injured in the same or similar attacks.

Alkarama was informed earlier in the week of the death of 20 protestors in various cities in Yemen who were killed over the course of February during peaceful protests in Mansoura and Maala City of Aden Province; Khormaksar, El Arish District; Dar Saada District; Sheikh Osman; and the capital, Sana'a.

03 Mar 2011
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Yemen: Investigate attacks on demonstrators

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Alkarama strongly condemns the Yemeni security services' and ruling party's continued violent repression of demonstrators demanding President Saleh's ouster.
25 Feb 2011
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