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Yemen - Latest Press Releases
YEM - News
Yemen: Demonstration in support of the arrested journalist Abd al-Ilah Haidar Shaie on the anniversary of his arrest
YEM - News | 25 July 2012
Alkarama, in coordination with the Yemeni National Institution for Defending Human Rights and Freedoms (HOOD) and the Yemeni Journalist
Syndicate (YJS) organised a demonstration on Wednesday 25 July in support of the arrested journalist: Abd al-Ilah Haidar Shaie who now enters his third year of detention in the Political Security Prison. He is detained as a result of an investigation he had done into the US bombardment of a village in the south of Yemen toward the end of 2009 under the pretext of fighting terrorism, which revealed that the strikes killed scores of civilians.
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Yemen: An appeal to lift the siege of the students in "Dar al-Hadeeth" in Sa'dah, and their families
YEM - News | 17 November 2011
Alkarama and Hood urgently appeal to the Yemeni government to intervene immediately to lift the ongoing siege of thousands of people in the "Dar al-Hadeeth" centre in the Dammaj area of Sa'dah, North Yemen. The authorities should further ensure the delivery of food and medical aid to more than three thousand Yemeni families and foreign residents, including children, women, as well as sick and elderly people, who have been besieged for nearly one month and who are acutely lacking food and medecine.
Yemen: HOOD and Alkarama condemn the continuing extra-judicial executions
YEM - News | 07 May 2012
The Alkarama Foundation and the Yemeni organisation HOOD condemn the US drone assassination of the Yemeni citizen Fahd Mohammad al-Quso, 38, in Azan, Shabwah province in the south of Yemen, on Sunday 6 May 2012. The US authorities continue to violate Yemen's sovereignty and to violate the right to life of individuals who are innocent civilians or untried suspects, under the pretext of protecting American national security.
Yemen: The right to life of 73 soldiers held by armed group safeguarded
YEM - News | 01 May 2012
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Yemen: Abbad Ahmed Sameer suspected of terrorism but no trial to prove it
YEM - News | 27 April 2012
Today, Alkarama submitted the case of a young Yemeni citizen, Mr Abbad Ahmed Sameer, to the United Nations Special Procedures. Abbad Ahmed Sameer was arbitrarily arrested on 11 November 2010 and is currently detained at Sana'a Political Security Prison. He has been held without having been officially charged nor presented to a judge, which makes his detention unlawful under international and domestic law.