Yemen protesters demand release of Guantanamo detainees
April 1, 2013
Approximately 250 Yemeni demonstrators gathered Monday in front of the US Embassy in Sanna to demand the release of Yemeni detainees held at Guantanamo Bay. According to media sources, 90 out the 166 remaining Guantanamo detainees are Yemeni, and several have been detained for more than a decade....... [more] 
Guantanamo detainee requests immediate relief amid alleged mistreatment, hunger strike
March 28, 2013
Human rights lawyers on Tuesday filed an emergency motion in the US District Court for the District of Columbia alleging that guards at Guantanamo Bay have denied drinking water and sufficient clothing to a Yemeni prisoner. The motion was filed only a day before a fact-finding visit to the US detent....... [more]
HRW urges Yemen to stop executing juvenile offenders
March 4, 2013
Yemen's government should stop seeking and carrying out the death penalty for child offenders, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report on Monday. The report found that since 2007 Yemen executed at least 15 men and women who were under 18 at the time of their offense. HRW urged President Abdu Rabu....... [more]
AI: Yemen forces must refrain from violent crackdown on protests
February 21, 2013
Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday called on Yemeni forces to observe peace and restraint (AI report) during scheduled protest marches this week. Yemeni security forces fired on protesters on Thursday despite AI's plea. The protest marches were organized by the Southern Movement to mark the one....... [more]
HRW: Yemen failed to probe anti-government protester deaths
February 13, 2013
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday said Yemen authorities failed to investigate top officials in the shooting deaths of 45 anti-government demonstrators killed in the country's "Friday of Dignity Massacre" in March 2011. The report, entitled "Unpunished Massacre: Yemen's Failed Response to the 'Fr....... [more]
AI: gross human rights abuses committed during conflict in Yemen
December 4, 2012
Amnesty International (AI) on Tuesday identified a series of gross human rights abuses committed by al Qaeda affiliates and Yemen's government forces during the 2011?2012 conflict over control of the country's southern region of Abyan. In its detailed report "Conflict in Yemen: Abyan's Darkest....... [more]
Obama Drone Policy Makes American Citizens Vulnerable, Undermines National Security
November 13, 2012
JURIST Guest Columnist Samar Warsi, a Senior Volunteer Attorney for the Muslim Civil Liberties Union, argues that drone attacks are counterproductive and hurt American attempts at foreign policy improvement...Just hours after the re-election of US President Barack Obama, a US drone strike was launch....... [more]
Accused USS Cole bomber boycotts pretrial hearing
October 23, 2012
Guantanamo Bay detainee Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri on Tuesday boycotted his pretrial hearing at the facility. Al-Nashiri is accused of bombing the USS Cole while it was in port in Yemen in October 2000. Al-Nashiri objected to the use of belly chains while he was brought from his cell to the courtroom f....... [more]
UN rights chief urges halt to violence over anti-Islam film
September 15, 2012
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Friday urged religious and political leaders around the world to encourage an end to violence that erupted after a US citizen released an anti-Islam film last week. While Pillay said she "fully understandwhy people wish to protest strongly against....... [more]
Guantanamo detainee dies after being found unconscious in cell
September 11, 2012
Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainee Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif died over the weekend at a hospital on the US Navy base after guards found him unconscious in his cell Saturday. Latif's identification was originally being withheld until the US military could notify his family and his home country's governmen....... [more]
The Egyptian Revolution
September 4, 2012
The Egyptian Revolution was one of the most prominent in a wave of protests that swept the Middle East beginning in early 2011. While many countries, including Bahrain, Yemen and Syria also experienced social reverberations that emanated from Tunisia's popular protests, a social movement that some r....... [more]
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