Articles for Yemen

Yemen: Abbad Ahmed Sameer suspected of terrorism but no trial to prove it

Today, Alkarama submitted the case of a young Yemeni citizen, Mr Abbad Ahmed Sameer, to the United Nations Special Procedures. Abbad Ahmed Sameer was arbitrarily arrested on 11 November 2010 and is currently detained at Sana'a Political Security Prison. He has been held without having been officially charged nor presented to a judge, which makes his detention unlawful under international and domestic law.

In the night of 11 November 2010, a group of agents from the Aden branch of Political Security broke into Mr Sameer's house and arrested him.

27 Apr 2012
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Yemen: A call to save the life of the Yemeni soldiers held by Ansar al Sharia

The Ansar Al Sharia group ("Followers of Islamic Law") in Yemen informed the human rights NGOs Alkarama and HOOD that the group plans in the coming days to execute a number of the Yemeni army soldiers who are held by the group since battles on the outskirts of Zinjibar in Abyan province in the south of the country in early March.

HOOD and Alkarama sent a delegation of lawyers to the city of Jaar, in Abyan province, which is currently ruled by Ansar al Sharia and was renamed the Emirate of Waqar on Thursday 22 March 2012.

25 Apr 2012
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Yemen: Video of Fifth Periodic Review by UN Human Rights Committee

The review of Yemen by the Human Rights Committee took place in New York from 14 to 15 March 2012. Alkarama submitted a report in view of the review, available on our website.

The review was filmed by Alkarama in both English and Arabic, and is now available here in English:

Day one of the review:

Day two of the review:

06 Apr 2012
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Yemen: Human Rights Committee Review in New York on 14 - 15 March 2012

In its first review by a UN human rights committee since former Vice-President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi became President in January 2012 following months of protest, Yemen will be examined by the United Nations' Human Rights Committee in New York on 14 and 15 March 2012.
29 Feb 2012
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Yemen: Ongoing hunger strike by detained journalist puts his life in danger

- Abd al-Ilah Haidar Shaie, the Yemeni journalist detained in the Political Security detention center in the capital Sanaa since August 2010, is suffering a rapid deterioration in his health conditions due to his indefinite hunger strike undertaken.

The journalist's family informed Alkarama's representative in Yemen that Mr Shaie undertook a

15 Feb 2012
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Yemen: Alkarama delegation visits Sanaa to prepare shadow report for UN Human Rights Committee

Mr Michael Romig, of the Alkarama Foundation concluded a visit to Yemen during which he met members of the Yemeni government, representatives of Yemeni human rights organisations, journalists, and victims of the violent repression of demonstrations that the country has been experiencing since last February.

Mr Romig expressed his gratitude to members of the Yemeni go

03 Jan 2012
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Yemen: An appeal to lift the siege of the students in "Dar al-Hadeeth" in Sa'dah, and their families

Alkarama and Hood urgently appeal to the Yemeni government to intervene immediately to lift the ongoing siege of thousands of people in the "Dar al-Hadeeth" centre in the Dammaj area of Sa'dah, North Yemen. The authorities should further ensure the delivery of food and medical aid to more than three thousand Yemeni families and foreign residents, including children, women, as well as sick and elderly people, who have been besieged for nearly one month and who are acutely lacking food and medecine.

17 Nov 2011
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Yemen : Appeal for a stay of execution of two Yemeni Citizens detained in Iraq

The Alkarama Foundation (Geneva) and the National organisation for defending rights and freedom - Hood (Sana) urge the Iraqi authorities not to apply the death penalty for two Yemeni citizens among a group of nineteen who have been detained for many years, and who faced unfair trials and sentences, including a Yemeni woman who has been sentenced for life imprisonment.

10 Nov 2011
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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.

Mr.

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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