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YEM - News

Yemen: 3 Men Arrested by Houthi-Saleh Coalition for Criticising Group's Policies

YEM - News | 06 November 2015

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.

Yemen: 29 Activists Arrested by Houthi-Saleh Coalition for Organising Peaceful March

YEM - News | 29 October 2015

On 21 October 2015, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) regarding the case of 29 activists arrested on 12 October 2015 by the Houthi-Saleh Coalition in the central Yemeni city of Ibb during an open meeting held to prepare a peaceful march organised to provide drinking water to the population of the besieged city of Taiz.

Yemen: 16-year-old Killed and 10 Members of Same Family Injured by Saudi-led Coalition Airstrike

YEM - News | 29 October 2015

On 27 October 2015, Alkarama sent a communication to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions (SR SUMX) on behalf of the Al Salwi family, whose house was hit in September 2015 by a Saudi-led Coalition airstrike, which killed one family member, a teenage girl, and injured 10 others.

Yemen: 9 Schoolgirls Killed and 18 Injured in Car Bombs Attacks in Southwest City of Rada'a

YEM - News | 21 October 2015

On 19 October 2015, Alkarama sent a communication to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions (SR SUMMEX) regarding the case of 27 schoolgirls victim of two car bombs detonated at a checkpoint controlled by the Houthi-Saleh Coalition in the southwest city of Rada'a, Al Bayda Governorate, in December 2014.

Yemen: Enforced Disappearance and Incommunicado Detention by Houthi-Saleh Coalition − When Preaching Against Violence Leads to Abduction

YEM - News | 19 October 2015

On 12 October 2015, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) as well as an urgent appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) regarding the cases of two Yemeni citizens victims of the Houthi-Saleh Coalition in Sanaa. Both Imam Abdulmajid bin Mahmoud Ali Al Hatari, who peacefully condemned violence in his sermons, and Hisham Masad Ahmed Naji Al Mahia are currently unlawfully detained by the Houthi-Saleh Coalition.

Yemen - HR Instruments

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)

ICCPR: Accessed on 09.02.1987
Optional Protocol: No

State report: Due on 30.03.2015 (6th)
Last concluding observations: 23.04.2012

Convention against Torture (CAT)

CAT: Accessed on 05.11.1991
Optional Protocol: No
Art. 20 (Confidential inquiry): Yes
Art. 22 (Individual communications): No

State report: Overdue since 14.05.2014 (3rd)
Last concluding observations: 17.12.2009

International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CED)

No

Universal Periodic Review (UPR)

Last review: 01.2014 (2nd cycle)
Next review: -

National Human Rights Institution (NHRI)

No