Yemen Human Rights
Human Rights Concerns
Amnesty International is concern about proposed new laws and amendments to existing laws which, if implemented, would represent a regression and reduce safeguards for human rights. In addition Amnesty International is concern about a continuing pattern of serious human rights violations, including restrictions on the peaceful exercise of the rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly; and discrimination and violence against women.
Amnesty International has longstanding concerns about the use of the death penalty in Yemen, particularly as death sentences are often passed after proceedings which fall short of international standards for fair trial. Although the Yemeni penal code expressly prohibits the execution of anyone under 18, AI continues to receive reports of death sentences passed on children.
Amnesty International is deeply concerned for the safety of members of the Jewish community in north-western Yemen following the killing of one member of the community and anonymous serious threats to others to leave Yemen or face death.
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Yemeni newspaper blockaded
May 11, 2009
Yemen: Threats against Jewish community
December 19, 2008
USA: Who are the Guantánamo detainees?
May 01, 2008
Former detainee reveals details of secret CIA program
March 14, 2008
Yemen: Amnesty International deeply concerned by death in detention
October 01, 2007
Yemen: Urgent appeal to halt execution of child offender this Saturday
August 09, 2007Latest Reports
Vital UN human rights work under threat
May 09, 2007
Amnesty International Magazine article: Dirty Secrets in the War on Terror
September 06, 2006
United States of America / Yemen: Secret Detention in CIA Black Sites
November 07, 2005
Yemen: Testimony of the 'disappeared' in the 'war on terror'. Action sheet 3 - Yemeni Authorities
July 31, 2005
Take Action: Ordered Released But Still Detained
Yemeni national Mohammed Mohammed Hassan Odaini remains detained in Guantánamo despite being cleared for release over 2 years ago. Odaini was detained in March 2002 along with several other Yemeni nationals, and sent to the detention camp at the US Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. To learn more and take action click here.
