Articles for Yemen

Yemen: Hammam Al-Dobii's reappears, arrest confirmed

Alkarama has just learned that Hammam Al-Dobii, previously abducted on 22 March 2010, has reappeared inside Sana'a Political Security prison. Following his abduction he was to an unknown destination.

Hammam Mohamed Al-Dobii, 18, was abducted on 22 March 2010 in Noukm district of Sana'a by masked gunmen in dress is civilian clothing. Three vehicles stopped in front his store and immediately arrested. Before reappearing inside Sana'a Political Security prison he had been missing for more than two weeks and is now detained without charge.

10 Apr 2010

Yemen: Hammam Al-Dobii is disappeared by State Security forces

Mohamed Hammam Al-Dobii was abducted on 23 March 2010 in Sanaa by plain clothed Intelligence Services officers. He was arrested without a warrant and taken to an unknown destination.

01 Apr 2010

Yemen: Ahmed Bamuallim sentenced to 10 years imprisonment

Alkarama has just received news that Ahmed Bamuallim, former MP and a political opposition figure in Yemen, was sentenced on 23 March 2010 to ten years imprisonment by the Specialized State Security Court on charges of violating national unity.

On 5 March 2010, Alkarama had called for the intervention of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD), in protest of his continued detention without trial since 19 April 2009, most likely for political reasons.

23 Mar 2010

Yemen: 10 people arbitrarily detained in Al-Hadida province

Throughout 2009 numerous arrests have been made in the Al-Hadida province under the pretext of the so-called "War on Terrorism". The student community and political activists have been particularly affected.

On 18 March 2010, Alkarama sent the cases of ten such victims to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, requesting its intervention with the Yemeni authorities.

23 Mar 2010

Yemen: Scores of arbitrarily detained prisoners go on hunger strike inside Mukalla Political Security Prison

Nearly 50 detainees inside Mukalla Political Security prison in Hadramawt province, southern Yemen, have entered a hunger strike in protest of their continued imprisonment by the Yemeni security authorities who have never charged them or taken them to court.

Relatives of the victims recently informed Alkarama's representative in Yemen that some of the detainees have now spent up to three years in prison without trial. The hunger strike, which began on 10 March 2010, is in protest of their continued arbitrary detention under poor conditions.

16 Mar 2010

Yemen: Al-Saadi brothers arrested by Political Security forces during house raid

The two brothers Osama, 14 and Mohammed Al-Saadi, 17, were arrested on 13 October 2007 and incommunicado for two months and then later detained without being subject to any legal proceedings for 18 months.

12 Mar 2010

Yemen: FREED - Young Bengali girl is released, four other Bengali nationals remain in Political Security custody

Alkarama has just received news that Tonchenba Haider Ali, 22, has just been released from Sana'a's Central Women's prison. The young lady from Bengal was arrested on 20 February 2010 by Political Security forces following the detention of four other fellow Bengali students. At the time of her arrest, she was departing from Sana'a airport after having completed a three month Arabic language course in Yemen.

11 Mar 2010

Yemen: Ahmed Bamuallim illegally imprisoned for nearly one year

Ahmed Bamuallim, a well-known Yemeni political opponent and member of the "Southern Movement" (Al-Harak Al-Janouby), was summoned by the Director of Military Intelligence on 15 April 2009 and has since remained in custody.

05 Mar 2010

Yemen: URGENT - Azam Hassan enters an open-ended hunger strike

Yemeni prisons and detention centers are filled with hundreds of detainees who have no idea when they will be released or even if they will ever be tried. Many of these prisoners were either arrested on suspicion or often with no reason at all, as the Yemeni authorities continue to use loosely defined anti-terrorism laws to arbitrarily detain suspects in the fight against the so-called "War on Terror".

16 Feb 2010

Yemen: Human rights defender, Maammar Al-Abdelli, risks unfair trial

Alkarama launched an urgent appeal today, to the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights, in the case of Maamar Al-Abdelli, who was arrested for the second time on 13 July 2009 at a hotel in Aden by agents of Yemeni Intelligence Services.

This is not the first time that this active campaigner for human rights of 36 years was arrested, abducted and arbitrarily detained by the Yemeni Intelligence Service.

04 Feb 2010