Alkarama submitted its contribution to the fourth periodical review of the United States by the Human Rights Committee, which open its 109 session in Geneva on 14 October.
More than a year following its review by the UN Human Rights Committee – responsible for mentoring implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights – Yemen has failed to implement priority recommendations highlighted as urgent, Alkarama noted in a report provided to the Human Rights Committee during its 1
Ahmed Al-Masraba, a 66 year-old Yemeni from Wusab, Dhamar governorate, was arrested and disappeared on 17 December 1981 in the midst of the Cold War, but his family was never given any official reason or explanation.
Yesterday afternoon, on 23 July 2013, around 5 pm local time, Yemeni investigative journalist Abdulillah Haydar Shaye was released from the Political Security Prison in Sanaa following a presidential amnesty. Detained arbitrarily for 3 years, he was subjected to torture, mistreatments and an unfair trial.
Despite significant undertakings by several ministries in Yemen, a number of serious human rights violations continue in the country, Alkarama's most recent report on Yemen said.
Yesterday, 17 June 2013, Yemeni and American activists organized a sit-in in front of the American embassy in Sanaa to protest against drone attacks in the context of American counter-terrorism policy, and to denounce the inability of the Obama administration to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.
On 17 April 2013 at 8.30 pm, two violent explosions from missiles fired by U.S. drones were heard in the village of Midhlib, Dhamar district, 150 km south of Sana'a. Four Yemeni civilians aged between 20 and 40, traveling in a 4x4 vehicle, were killed.
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.
Alkarama and Hood presented a 
