Articles for Yemen

On 9 February 2015, Alkarama provided the Committee against Torture (CAT) with a list of 56 issues to be raised by the United Nations experts with the Yemeni authorities during their consideration of Yemen's initial report

Alkarama welcomes the release of Mohammad Muthana Al Ammari by the Yemeni authorities on 30 September 2014, 10 months after he finished serving his two-year prison sentence for participating in demonstrations.

Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the Special Rapporteur against Torture concerning two French-Tunisians, Aissaoui Taha and Ben Ayed Mourad, arrested and secretly detained in Yemen since May 2014.

On 24 June 2014, Alkarama submitted a communication to the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearance regarding the case of Jamil Al Dabibi, a young father of four, who used to work as a mechanic and motorcycle-taxi driver.

On 27 June 2013, Jamil was abducted from his work place in Amanat Al Assima Sana'a and taken to a prison, where he remained in secret detention for two months before he was allowed to receive family visits.

Alkarama referred to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, the case of Tariq Saeed Abdullah Saleh Alamoodi, arrested on September 2012 and arbitrarily detained since then in Sanaa without ever being brought before any judicial authority.

The Human Rights Council adopted yesterday the report for the second cycle of the Universal Periodic Review of Yemen. This mechanism involves for every United Nations member state to be reviewed on the situation of Human rights in their country.

On 14 May 2014, Alkarama submitted an urgent appeal to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention as well as other Special Procedures for the immediate release of Mr Al Masraba who had been under enforced disappearance for more than thirty-three years.

Mohammad Muthana Al Ammari, a 34 year-old Yemeni teacher who had participated, like so many others, in the demonstrations that toppled former Yemeni president Saleh, was abducted from the street in Sana'a on 5 December 2011 by a dozen armed men. After being disappeared and tortured, he was sentenced on 19 October 2012 to two years in prison by a special courtfor political motives after a grossly unfair trial. It has been three years since the Yemeni revolution.

On 12 December 2013 at 4:30 pm, a wedding procession composed of 14 vehicles and 70 passengers was targeted by 4 missiles launched from a drone. The result was 12 people killed and 13 injured.

The use of drones by the USA to commit targeted assassinations in Yemen should be considered, and qualified, as extrajudicial executions.