Yemen Human Rights
Human Rights Concerns
Amnesty International has written to President ‘Ali ‘Abdullah Saleh urging him to take all possible steps to ensure that the recent upsurge in clashes between government forces and supporters of the late Zaidi Shi’a cleric Hussain Badr al-Din al-Huthi do not result in a repeat of the gross human rights abuses which occurred during earlier unrest in Sa’da governorate.
Amnesty International is concern about arbitrary arrest and widespread of torture and ill-treatment of detainees in detention.
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. AI continues to receive reports of death sentences passed on children and mentally ill people.
Women continued to face discrimination in law and practice and were inadequately protected against domestic and other violence.
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January 25, 2010
Rights at risk in Yemen amid increased security crackdown
January 25, 2010
Yemen: Amnesty International Cautions that Human Rights are at Risk in Yemen Amid Increased Security Crackdown
January 25, 2010
Yemen must set aside prison sentence on female journalist
January 19, 2010
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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.
