Relatives of the victims recently informed Alkarama's representative in Yemen that some of the detainees have now spent up to three years in prison without trial. The hunger strike, which began on 10 March 2010, is in protest of their continued arbitrary detention under poor conditions.

During their hunger strike the detainees turned down the weekly visits they usually receive from their families. Sources have confirmed that each of the victim's physical and psychological health has severely deteriorated.

Yemeni prisons are filled with hundreds of arbitrarily detained prisoners suspected of "terrorism", but the vast majority of these prisoners have never undergone any legal proceedings and are continuously denied even the most basic of level of human rights. Many of them will spend years in arbitrary detention without trial, exposed to torture, ill-treatment and solitary confinement, only to be released years later without any compensation or amnesty.

Within the group in Hadramout, there are 14 detainees who had been arrested in Syria and handed over to Yemeni authorities, which made the arrests. Alkarama sent their cases to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on 19 November 2008.

Many of the relatives of the detainees travelled from Hadramout to Sana'a to meet with the Head of Political Security, General Ghalib Al-Qamsh, in an attempt to raise their cases. After countless interventions with the local authorities and numerous sit-ins, the families of the detainees are slowly becoming desperate.

The families of the detainees organized a peaceful sit-in in front of the headquarters of the Political Security Systems services in the Sana'a on 10 November 2009. With the participation of Alkarama they called for the release of their loved ones, only be to have the security personnel guarding the headquarter prevent the media and journalists from photographing the event. In the end, the parents were able to give General Ghalib Al-Qamsh a letter demanding their release.

List the names of detainees in the Political Security Prison Hadramout

1 Salim Ali Abu Bakr Al-Attas

2 Abdul-Karim Mohammed Yusuf Ahmed (released)

3 Abdulrahman Salem Barashid

4 Marwan Jaman Ppaduis (named in the previously released)

5 Mohamed Said Abdel-Latif

6 Hossam Mohammed Al Amoudi (submitted for trial)

7 Rashad Omar Saeed Mari

8 Mohammed Ali Mohammed

9 Basim Mubarak Awad

10 Saleh Karama Baebad

11 Mohamed Saleh move

12 Salim Ahmed al-Habashi

13 Ahmed Abu Bakr

14 Murad Hassan Bin (released)

15 Hisham Abdul Rahim Bawazir

16 Khalid Mohammed Said Mahaviz

17 Mohammed Abdullah al-Shami

18 Sami Mubarak Bahhuan

19 Abdullah Saeed parish

20 Ali Salem Alasani 20 (released)

21 pilgrims raised the parish

22 Abu Bakr Hamid al-Hamid

23 Yasser Salem Bahoij

24 Mohamed Anis Paimin

25 Hassan Fabricator

26 Anwar Mohammed Bagokayev (released)

27 Mohammad Omar Bin Shaab (released)

28 Awad Ahmed Jaidi

29 Ahmed Omar Bin

30 Abbas Awad Hamdan Karama

31 Nabil Salem Zain Alcaldi

32 Hosni Said Abdn

33 Abdel Hakim Mohammed Badbean

34 Ghalib Ahmed Bagaaiti

35 Emad Omar Ahmed burning

36 Malik Bakotaian (released)

37 Ali Omar Badas

38 Ali Al-Amoudi (released)

39 Haoren Moataz Abdullah Al-Attas

40 Mohammed Bapartyi (released)

41 Omar Awad Saleh Ghurabi

42 Omar Basrih (released)

43 and seriously Ala Yazidi Yahya (released)

44 Saleh al Yazidi (released)

45 Bassam Ali Hussein Solomon

46 Ahmed Omar Ahmed Basloum

47 Salem Nasser Ahmed Parashd

48 Raed Omar Mubarak Matran

49 Fahmi Omar Mubarak Matran (released)

50 Adel Faraj Mubarak Matran

51 Ahmed Juman Baduis

52 Mohammed Ali Ahmed Bazbian

53 Abbas Awad Karama Hamdan

54 Salim Ahmed Salim Parashd

55 Hani Salem Mohammed Bin Arifun

56 Omar Awad Saleh Ghurabi

57 Ali Ahmed Wajdi Almrphii

58 Nhim Thibyan Omar Ba (released)