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Yemen: The CAT is disturbed by the systematic nature of human rights violations in Yemen
YEM - News | 26 November 2009
On 19 November 2009, the Committee against Torture (CAT) mad its provisional concluding observations (CAT/C/YEM/CO/2) following its consideration of the second periodic report (CAT/C/YEM/2) which took place on 3 November 2009 in Geneva. It should be noted that during this session, the State party was absent; the Committee's concluding observations will only be adopted during the next session after the Yemeni government responds to the requests for clarification raised by CAT experts.
Yemen: Alkarama takes part in peaceful sit-in in Sana'a for families of arbitrary detainees in Hadramout
YEM - News | 10 November 2009
Guards at the headquarters of the Political Security forces in Sana'a prevented media representatives and journalists from recording a peaceful gathering in front of the security headquarters on 10 November 2009. The sit-in was organised by families from the governorate of Hadramout, in collaboration with a representative of Alkarama in Yemen, to call for the release of arbitrary detainees from the political security prison in the city of al-Mukalla, in south-east Yemen.
Yemen: On-going arbitrary detention and unfair trial of human rights defender Yasser al-Wazir
YEM - News | 20 November 2009
On 5 June 2008, Yasser al-Wazir left his home and made his way to his local mosque for Friday prayers. Somewhere between his home and the mosque he disappeared - and his family was unable to contact him on his mobile phone. It was only in mid-September 2008 that his family learned that he was being detained at the Political Security prison in Sana'a. Mr al-Wazir had been detained incommunicado for a total of three months.
Yemen: Al-Mahfili, minor, released after nine months of arbitrary detention
YEM - News | 19 November 2009
Ahmad al-Mahfili, whose case Alkarama had previously submitted to numerous UN special procedures, was finally released on 11 November 2009 - after more than nine months of arbitrary detention at Political Security headquarters in Sana'a. Ahmad Mohsen Yahia Ali al-Mahfili was originally arrested on 23 February 2009 and held incommunicado for 2 and half months before the authorities acknowledged his detention.
Yemen: Alkarama attends CAT review, Yemeni delegation absent
YEM - News | 03 November 2009
For only the second time in the history of the Committee against Torture (CAT), a periodic review took place in absence of the State party delegation - the first being Cambodia's initial review on 29 April 2003. Alkarama was present for Yemen's CAT review on 3 November 2009, for which it had submitted a Shadow Report. The Committee's experts unanimously deplored the absence of the Yemeni delegation - further adding to this the fact that the representative of Yemen's Permanent Mission to the UN was also not present.