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Yemen protesters demand release of Guantanamo detainees
April 1, 2013 by Benjamin Minegar
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]
HRW urges Yemen to stop executing juvenile offenders
March 4, 2013 by Alison Sacriponte
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.... [more]
AI: Yemen forces must refrain from violent crackdown on protests
February 21, 2013 by Keith Herting
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.... [more]
HRW: Yemen failed to probe anti-government protester deaths
February 13, 2013 by Maureen Cosgrove
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 '.... [more]
AI: gross human rights abuses committed during conflict in Yemen
December 4, 2012 by Julie Deisher
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 [comment]
November 13, 2012 by Jordan Barry
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.... [more]
Accused USS Cole bomber boycotts pretrial hearing
October 23, 2012 by Jerry Votava
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.... [more]
UN rights chief urges halt to violence over anti-Islam film
September 15, 2012 by Jaimie Cremeans
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.... [more]
The Egyptian Revolution
September 4, 2012 by Meagan McElroy
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.... [more]
Hamdan appeal sent to a full US military commissions review court [this day at law]
September 3, 2012 by Garrett Eisenhour
On September 3, 2010, the US Court of Military Commission Review announced that it would hear the appeal of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, the former driver of Osama Bin Laden. In August 2008, Hamdan was convicted of providing material support for terrorism and sentenced to 66 months in prison. Hamdan was.... [more]
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