• Human Rights in Yemen
    Yemen’s political transition is threatened by loyalists of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh and other entrenched interests, who are resisting the new government’s attempts to restructure the security forces and enact legislative reforms. Saleh’s relatives retain command of security forces implicated in attacks on protesters during the 2011 uprising, and Yemen’s parliament granted the former president and his aides immunity from prosecution. A draft transitional justice law is stalled. State security forces and other armed groups deploy children. Nearly a half-million Yemenis are internally displaced. The US has rebuffed calls to detail its legal rationale for using drones in Yemen to target Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
  • A New Chance to Act on Guantanamo
    The last time Amina al-Rabeii video conferenced from Yemen with her brother Salman, a detainee at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, she barely recognized the skeletal man on the screen.
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  • The Trials of Child Marriage
    May 13, 2013
    In Yemen, South Sudan, and other parts of the world, instead of going to school or spending time with their friends and families, girls, some as young as 8, are married -- often to much older men. If the girls don’t want to marry, their families generally force them. After they are wed, life often changes for the worse.
  • A New Chance to Act on Guantanamo
    May 9, 2013
    The last time Amina al-Rabeii video conferenced from Yemen with her brother Salman, a detainee at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, she barely recognized the skeletal man on the screen.
  • Yemen: Court Orders Investigation of Ex-President
    Apr 30, 2013
    A Yemeni court order to investigate former president Ali Abdullah Saleh and 11 aides in connection with a March 2011 massacre of anti-government protesters is a step toward justice. On April 27, 2013, a trial court in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, ordered the probe of Saleh and other former ranking officials – including his nephews Yahya Saleh and Tareq Saleh.
  • Yemen: Military Changes a Major Transition Step
    Apr 12, 2013
    President Abdu Rabu Hadi’s removal from military command on April 10, 2013, of senior figures linked to abuse was a key step in Yemen’s post-uprising transition. The president’s appointment of some of these key figures to posts in which they would have diplomatic immunity is a source of concern, however.
  • Yemen: Reveal Any Military Role in Journalist’s Killing
    Apr 3, 2013
    Yemen’s Defense Ministry should cooperate in bringing the killer of a journalist and his friend to justice, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to the defense minister, Maj. Gen. Mohammed Nasser Ahmed, requesting information about possible military involvement in the case.
  • Letter to Yemeni Minister of Defense on Death of Journalist Wagdy al-Shabi
    Apr 3, 2013
  • Yemen’s Open Wounds
    Mar 25, 2013
    Yemen has set out on a six-month “national dialogue” to address the key challenges facing the country more than a year after it ousted its longtime ruler, Ali Abdullah Saleh. A draft transitional justice law before parliament is a good indication of how difficult these challenges are going to be. The law would offer little by way of justice for the families of victims of the three decades of dictatorship and rampant human rights violations. Among them are several waves of forced disappearances -- predominantly socialists and Nasserists who were victims of the North-South political strife in the 1970s, 80s and 90s. The UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances reported 102 cases transmitted to the government by 1999.
  • Yemen’s Friday of Indignity
    Mar 18, 2013
    Two years ago on March 18, as popular revolts swept Yemen, gunmen in civilian clothes carried out the deadliest attack on protesters of the country’s 2011 uprising. As state security forces stood by, the gunmen opened fire on protesters amassed for a rally they had named the Friday of Dignity, killing 45 and wounding 200.
  • Yemen: Possible Military Role in Journalist’s Killing
    Mar 16, 2013
    Yemeni authorities should ensure that an investigation into the killing of a journalist and another man in Aden fully and impartially examines the military’s possible role and brings those responsible to justice.
  • Yemen: Halt Execution of Alleged Juvenile Offender
    Mar 8, 2013
    President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi of Yemen should immediately halt the scheduled execution of a man who may have been under 18 at the time of the alleged crime, Human Rights Watch said today. Mohammad Abd al-karim Mohammad Haza`a is due to face a firing squad on the morning of March 9, 2013.
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