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Yemen: Alkarama delegation visits Sanaa to prepare shadow report for UN Human Rights Committee
YEM - News | 03 January 2012
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Yemen : Appeal for a stay of execution of two Yemeni Citizens detained in Iraq
YEM - News | 10 November 2011
The Alkarama Foundation (Geneva) and the National organisation for defending rights and freedom - Hood (Sana) urge the Iraqi authorities not to apply the death penalty for two Yemeni citizens among a group of nineteen who have been detained for many years, and who faced unfair trials and sentences, including a Yemeni woman who has been sentenced for life imprisonment.
Yemen: Journalists suffer persecution for reporting on protests
YEM - News | 29 July 2011
Alkarama today submitted the cases of 7 journalists, including 2 women, who have suffered persecution because of their activities reporting on, and participating in, protests in Yemen to the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression. These journalists have been subjected to various type of harassment including being enforcedly disappeared, detained arbitrarily, arrested, and received death threats.
Yemen: Alkarama provides information about the regime's crimes to the UN Human Rights Mission
YEM - News | 05 July 2011
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Yemen: extra-judicial executions on the rise
YEM - News | 20 May 2011
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The excessive use of force by the Yemeni authorities has led to the deaths of hundreds of persons since protests began 26 January 2011. There has been a wave of peaceful popular protests in Yemen calling for the removal of President Saleh from power. These protests have taken place in the context of a wave of popular protests in the Arab world calling for democratic change.