Yesterday, 17 June 2013, Yemeni and American activists organized a sit-in in front of the American embassy in Sanaa to protest against drone attacks in the context of American counter-terrorism policy, and to denounce the inability of the Obama administration to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. This campaign, launched under the slogan "Human Dignity" in April 2013 by Alkarama and other human rights organizations in Yemen, aims for the closure of Guantanamo and Bagram detention centers. Several members of Code Pink, a pacifist American organization, joined Alkarama and Hood yesterday to show their support to the families of Guantanamo detainees and pay a tribute to the victims of American airstrikes.

Alkarama and Hood presented a report containing information on ten U.S. air strikes in Yemen between 2009 and 2013 to two UN experts.

The Al Haudali family, of Yemeni origin but based in Saudi Arabia for the past 50 years, have informed Alkarama that they had been threatened and harassed by the Saudi authorities since a documentary film aired recently on the satellite channel "Al Asr" talking about the tragic story that this family was subjected to at the hands of Saudi Arabia's Security services. The documentary retraces their arbitrary detention in Saudi Arabia followed by torture and mistreatment, and ending with their forcible deportation to Yemen.