Articles for Yemen

Since Donald Trump took office in 2017, at least 86 civilians, including women and children, have been killed in Yemen in attacks, most of which were drone strikes, by the United States of America, some with the participation of the United Arab Emirates, according to the Washington Post.

Yesterday, Thursday, October 15, 2020, five Yemeni journalists detained in the prisons of the Houthi group, Ansar Allah, were released in Sanaa as part of an agreement to exchange prisoners and kidnappers concluded under the auspices of the United Nations and of the International Committee of the Red Cross between the Houthi group and the recognized Yemeni government and Saudi Arabia, comprising 1081 prisoners while many journalists and other political activists remain in detention, including

The UN Panel of Eminent International Experts on Yemen said that there is reasonable evidence that Saudi Arabia, the UAE, the Houthis, the Yemeni government and the Southern Transitional Council have committed war crimes and other violations in Yemen.

The Houthi authorities released the Yemeni journalist, Salah al-Qaidi who was detained in the Political Security prison in the capital, Sanaa, after years of arbitrary detention, torture, and ill-treatment.

The Houthi-controlled Specialized Criminal Court issued a death sentence against journalists Abd al-Khaleq Imran, Tawfiq al-Mansuri, Harith Hamid, Akram al-Walidi. It also issued prison sentences against  six other journalists: Salah al-Qadi, Hassan Annab, Haitham al-Shehab, Hisham Tarmum, and Hisham al-Yousifi , Issam Belghith. All
The Houthi court's decision comes five years after the kidnapping and disappearance of the journalists in Sana'a, and their exposure to torture and inhumane conditions of detention, according to testimonies from their families.

Mohammed Manea

(Geneva, March 27, 2019) – On March 22, 2019, Alkarama submitted the cases of two Yemeni citizens Mohammed Manea and Suleiman Suleiman to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID). Both men were arrested and disappeared from the city of Jizan in December 2015.

On January 23, 2019, Yemen’s human rights record was scrutinised by UN member states during the third cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR).

(Geneva, July 13, 2018) – On June 21, 2018, Alkarama submitted its shadow report to the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in the context of the third cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Yemen, scheduled for January 2019.

On 22 May 2017, Alkarama, along with the SAM Observatory for Rights and Liberties, sent a joint communication to the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions (SR SUMX) regarding the execution of three men in Sana’a by the Houthi-Saleh coalition.

As organizations working to protect the rights of children in armed conflict, we are dismayed by your reported decision to “freeze” any new additions of parties to conflict that commit grave violations of children’s rights to the annexes to your 2017 annual report to the United Nations Security Council on children and armed conflict. We urge you to reconsider, and issue an updated list with your report, including all perpetrators responsible for patterns of grave violations against children in 2016.