Articles for Yemen

Seventeen young 'revolutionaries' were finally released from Sanaa central prison yesterday morning following 3 weeks of hunger strike which they undertook in protest at their almost 2-year arbitrary detention.

The Al Haudali family, of Yemeni origin but based in Saudi Arabia for the past 50 years, have informed Alkarama that they had been threatened and harassed by the Saudi authorities since a documentary film aired recently on the satellite channel "Al Asr" talking

The suffering of a family of Palestinian refugees continues after being forcibly deported from Taif, Saudi Arabia to Yemen in 2007. All the members of Al-Hadad family were recently detained by Yemeni security forces and then taken to Sana'a central Prison without any legal proceedings.

Yemeni security forces at Sana'a international airport arrested six citizens upon their arrival from Iraq at midnight on 14 October 2012.

American military authorities declared the death of a 32 year old detainee, Adnan Farhan Abdel Latif al-Sharaabi, in a statement issued on Tuesday 11 September 2012.

Alkarama's Yemen office, in cooperation with the National Organisation for Defending Rights and Freedoms "HOOD", organised today, Wednesday 5 September 2012, a meeting to hear the testimonies of the victims of the American drone attack on a civilian car in the Radaa area in the province of Bayda (170 Kilometres south east of the capital Sana) which took place last Sunday 2 September 2012. The raid killed 11 civilians including two children and two women.

The relatives of the victims spoke during the meeting about the magnitude of the tragedy caused by the American raid.

Alkarama, in coordination with the Yemeni National Institution for Defending Human Rights and Freedoms (HOOD) and the Yemeni Journalist Syndicate (YJS) organised a demonstration on Wednesday 25 July in support of the arrested journalist: Abd al-Ilah Haidar Shaie who now enters his third year of detention in the Political Security Prison.

The Alkarama Foundation and the Yemeni organisation HOOD condemn the US drone assassination of the Yemeni citizen Fahd Mohammad al-Quso, 38, in Azan, Shabwah province in the south of Yemen, on Sunday 6 May 2012.