Articles for Yemen

Yemen: Alkarama and HOOD appeal to the Yemeni government to save its detained citizens in Iraq and Pakistan

Saleh BaydaniUpdate - Today, Alkarama submitted to the Special Rapporteur on summary executions the case of Saleh Musa Ahmad Baydani , young Yemeni citizen sentenced to death in Iraq after unfair trial. 

 

22 Aug 2012
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Yemen: Demonstration in support of the arrested journalist Abd al-Ilah Haidar Shaie on the anniversary of his arrest

Alkarama, in coordination with the Yemeni National Institution for Defending Human Rights and Freedoms (HOOD) and the Yemeni Journalist
Credit to Yemen Press
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.
25 Jul 2012
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Yemen: HOOD and Alkarama condemn the continuing extra-judicial executions

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.
07 May 2012
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Yemen: The right to life of 73 soldiers held by armed group safeguarded

The Alkarama Foundation, in cooperation with the Yemeni NGO HOOD, intervened to ensure the release of 73 imprisoned soldiers held since March by the "Ansar al-Shariah" armed group in the Abyan province in the south of Yemen.
01 May 2012
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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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