Abdulrahman Saeed Hasan Al Buriahi and Abdjulmajid bin Mahmoud Ali Al HatariOn 26 and 27 May 2016, the Yemeni citizens Abdulrahman Saeed Hasan Al Buriahi and Abdjulmajid bin Mahmoud Ali Al Hatari were released by the Houthi-Saleh Coalition after having been secretly detained for more than five and ten months respectively.

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After 10 months of enforced disappearance, torture and ill-treatment, Dr Abdelkader Al Guneid, a pediatrician and professor at Taiz University, was finally released the by Houthi-Saleh Coalition on 21 May 2016.

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After 211 days of detention and torture, the Houthi-Saleh Coalition has finally released Yemeni human rights activist Antar Al Mabarizi. In October 2015, Al Mabarizi, along with 28 other activists and journalists, was arrested at a meeting for the planning of a march requesting authorities to provide the besieged city of Taiz with drinking water.

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On 28 April 2016, Alkarama wrote to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) regarding the case of two Yemeni citizens, Mujahed Mohamed Ahmed Al Hamdani and Abdulrahman Saeed Hasan Al-Buriahi, who disappeared after their abduction by the Special Security Forces of the military and the Houthi-Saleh Coalition respectively. Although the situation in the country is chaotic, Alkarama still hopes the WGEID will help shed light on their whereabouts by contacting the concerned parties.

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ID photo of Abdulrab Al-Humaiqani Alkarama welcomes the release, on 20 April 2016, of Abdulrab Ahmed Abdulrab Al Humaiqani, a human rights and political activist who was arrested by the Houthi-Saleh Coalition on 28 August 2015. After being arrested without a warrant nor being presented with the reasons for the arrest, Al Humaiqani was taken to an unknown location, where he was kept without contact with his family until his release.

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On 5 May 2012, 22-year-old student Rachid Qasim Mohamed Ali Yahya Al Daifi was arrested during a raid by the police forces in Sanaa's Tahrir Square and brought to an unknown location. Having not heard from him since, and exhausted all remedies at the national level, his family contacted Alkarama, who submitted his case, on 28 January, to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID), hoping that this mechanism for the protection and promotion of human rights could help shed light on Al Daifi's fate and whereabouts.

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Wednesday, 02 December 2015 09:21

Yemen: Student Disappeared for Over 10 Years

On 23 January 2004, as 22-year-old student Wasif Hassan Abdulrab Matar went swimming on the Gold Mohur Coast in the south of Yemen, he was arrested by members of the Yemeni Republican Guards conducting a naval exercise and taken to an unknown location. As he has been missing since, on 27 November 2015, Alkarama sent a communication to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced Disappearances (WGEID), hoping that this human rights mechanism could help shed light on Wasif's fate and whereabouts.

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On 10 November 2015, activists Walid Ali Omar Al Kathiri and Abdullah Karash were released by the Houthi-Saleh coalition from the Political Security Prison. Walid Ali Omar Al Kathiri and Abdullah Karash were detained incommunicado since their arrest together with 27 other activists on 12 October 2015 for organising a peaceful march to the besieged city of Taiz. Prior to their release, Alkarama had sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) calling for their discharge.

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On 13 November 2015, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) regarding the case of Abdulrab Ahmed Abulrab Al Humaiqani, arrested in August 2015 by a group of men belonging to the Houthi-Saleh Coalition. Aged 36, Al Humaiqani works for the governorate of Sana'a and is a human rights and political activist as well as a researcher in international law. He lives in the northern district of Sana'a with his wife, who is pregnant with their seventh child.

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Between 20 and 30 October 2015, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) as well as two urgent appeals to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) regarding the cases of three Yemeni citizens unlawfully arrested by the Houthi-Saleh Coalition for criticising the group's policies.

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