Articles for Yemen

Yemen: Ahmed Bamuallim illegally imprisoned for nearly one year

Ahmed Bamuallim, a well-known Yemeni political opponent and member of the "Southern Movement" (Al-Harak Al-Janouby), was summoned by the Director of Military Intelligence on 15 April 2009 and has since remained in custody.
05 Mar 2010
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Yemen: URGENT - Azam Hassan enters an open-ended hunger strike

Yemeni prisons and detention centers are filled with hundreds of detainees who have no idea when they will be released or even if they will ever be tried. Many of these prisoners were either arrested on suspicion or often with no reason at all, as the Yemeni authorities continue to use loosely defined anti-terrorism laws to arbitrarily detain suspects in the fight against the so-called "War on Terror".
16 Feb 2010
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Yemen: Human rights defender, Maammar Al-Abdelli, risks unfair trial

Alkarama launched an urgent appeal today, to the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights, in the case of Maamar Al-Abdelli, who was arrested for the second time on 13 July 2009 at a hotel in Aden by agents of Yemeni Intelligence Services.

This is not the first time that this active campaigner for human rights of 36 years was arrested, abducted and arbitrarily detained by the Yemeni Intelligence Service.

04 Feb 2010
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Yemen: Al-Ghouli and Al-Naggar sentenced after unfair trial at Sanaa's Specialised State Security Court

On 26 January 2009, Sana'a's Specialised State Security Court ruled against Mohamed Qasim Ali Al-Gholi and Amin Al-Naggar - two cases which Alkarama had previously submitted to the UN
27 Jan 2010
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Yemen: Yasser Al-Wazir sentenced to 8 years imprisonment in an unfair trial

Having previously submitted his case as an urgent appeal to the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders on 20 November 2009, Alkarama has just learned that Yasser Al-Wazir was sentenced on 17 January 2010 to 8 years imprisonment by the Specialized Primary Criminal Court in Sana'a.

At the time

20 Jan 2010
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Yemen: Abdul Rahman Al-Hossami released after three years imprisonment - arbitrary detention and an unfair trial

Despite having served six months over and beyond his prison sentence, Abdul Rahman Al-Hossami was not released by Yemeni security services. However, reliable sources recently informed Alkarama that he was in fact finally released on 7 December 2009.
07 Jan 2010
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Yemen: Imminent risk of extradition to Pakistan for Abdelghani Suleiman

Abdelghani Suleiman is threatened with forced extradition to Pakistan where he risks being subjected to torture. He has been detained by the Political Security services (Al-Amn Al-Siyassi) in Sana'a since 28 May 2008 without legal procedure.

Alkarama submitted his case to the Special Rapporteur on Torture on 24 December 2009 asking him to intervene with the Yemeni authorities.

25 Dec 2009
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Yemen: Further examples of atmosphere of impunity among Yemeni Security forces - Extrajudicial executions go unpunished

Two separate extrajudicial killings, carried out by agents of the Yemeni security services, took place in July 2008 and July 2009. Despite orders from the Ministry of the Interior for the perpetrators to be arrested and handed over to the Prosecution, no action has been taken in the case of Saleh Al-Wasabi and the culprits remain at large .
23 Dec 2009
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Yemen: Abdullah Al-Rimi, released after 19 months arbitrary detention and cruelty

After 19 months of arbitrary detention at the Political Security prison in Sana'a, the Yemeni security authorities released Abdullah Saad Al-Ghazial Al-Rimi on 8 December 2009.

Orders had been given for his released by the State Security criminal prosecution, but the Political Security forces continued to reject them for over a year due to lack of evidence. During this period, he was never subject to any legal proceedings; rather, the authorities continued detaining him in complete violation of judicial orders.

11 Dec 2009
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Yemen: The CAT is disturbed by the systematic nature of human rights violations in Yemen

On 19 November 2009, the Committee against Torture (CAT) mad its provisional concluding observations (CAT/C/YEM/CO/2) following its consideration of the second periodic report (CAT/C/YEM/2) which took place on 3 November 2009 in Geneva.
26 Nov 2009
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