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CNN
April 21, 2018
Hanna Lahoud was a staffer in charge of the ICRC's detention program in Yemen. The Lebanese national was on his way to visit a prison when a group of unknown armed men attacked the car he was in, the aid group said. Lahoud was immediately rushed to a hospital, where he died of his injuries.
Al-Arabiya
April 21, 2018
Asmaa al-Omeissy, 22, was sentenced on charges of “conspiracy and espionage” in favor of one of the countries linked to the coalition fighting to support legitimacy in Yemen. Omeissy, is currently in a Houthi prison in Sanaa facing death and a mother of two children. Observers say she is just of example ofÃâà...
IHS Jane's 360
April 19, 2018
MEDIA reports on 17 April stated that 18 Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) militants had been released from a prison in Yemen's Al-Bayda governorate by Ansar Allah militants in a deal negotiated between the two groups on an earlier unspecified date, Middle East Monitor reported. In a statementÃâà...
PRESSTV
April 18, 2018
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has revealed that Yemen's UAE-backed ex-officials based in Aden detain and brutally abuse African refugees passing ... former Yemeni officials controlling Aden “torture, rape and execute” the refugees from the Horn of Africa in a detention center and forcibly deport them out toÃâà...
Middle East Monitor
April 17, 2018
... in Al-Bayda governorate, southern Yemen, between the Houthis, AQAP and the Saudi-led coalition. However, a statement published via AQAP's open source network on Saturday claimed the 18 prisoners in Al-Bayda “attacked” prison guards and escaped without any mention of Houthi involvement.
Xinhua
April 14, 2018
ADEN, Yemen, April 14 (Xinhua) -- Eighteen inmates of the Yemen-based al-Qaida branch managed to escape from a prison controlled by the Shiite Houthi rebels ... Scores of al-Qaida militants are engaged in the ongoing fighting against the Shiite Houthis in al-Bayda province and other Yemeni provinces.
Middle East Monitor
March 26, 2018
Yemeni activists have circulated images showing hundreds of Yemeni expatriates being detained in dire conditions in a Saudi prison. The activists said on Saturday that the photographs were taken inside Al-Shamsi prison as part of the Kingdom's massive deportation campaign against violators of theÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 24, 2018
A Yemeni militia backed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been accused of kidnapping several young "northerners" in the southern port city of Aden, ... on accounts from former detainees, lawyers and Yemeni officials, AP reported that there were at least 18 clandestine prisons across southern YemenÃâà...
Al-Arabiya
March 21, 2018
Yemen's Abductees Mothers Association held an event on the Arab Mother's Day, March 21, in Maarib for the mothers of the men imprisoned by the Houthi ... Ibrahim Mohy el-Din, who managed to escape a Houthi prison, joined the event and read some poetic verses about his experiences and how he feltÃâà...
RadioFarda
March 20, 2018
Tajzadeh was released from Tehran's notorious Evin Prison in 2014, and has since become known for opposing conservatives and the IRGC. ... Yemen is not occupied by ISIS and it has no holy places; it is not a neighbor of Israel to be considered as a part of the Islamic Republic's strategic sphere…
The Hill (blog)
March 20, 2018
... Mike Lee Ãâ÷ Michael (Mike) Shumway LeeThe 14 GOP senators who voted against Trump's immigration framework Prison sentencing bill advances over Sessions objections Grassley 'incensed' by Sessions criticism of proposed sentencing reform legislation MORE (R-Utah) and Chris Murphy Ãâ÷ ChristopherÃâà...
The Daily Freeman
March 20, 2018
The impending genocide in Yemen and Gaza can be blamed on our two client states, Saudi Arabia and Israel. Both countries are rigid ... If you are not a Jew in the West Bank, your house is destroyed, your olive trees cut down, and your children face rubber bullets or jail for protesting. But Yemen and GazaÃâà...
National Catholic Reporter
March 20, 2018
11, participants will lay 5,000 flowers on the White House lawn in memory of Yemeni children killed or injured as a result of U.S.-supported Saudi war on Yemen. The event, hosted by grassroots Muslim group MPower Change, is in support of a bipartisan resolution Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), MikeÃâà...
The Hill
March 19, 2018
“In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,” wrote James Madison, “than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not to the executive department.” Madison, the chief architect of our Constitution, would know. He understood that the executive branch isÃâà...
HuffPost
March 18, 2018
In March 2015, the Saudis and their Sunni allies in the region attacked the Iran-backed Houthi armed group that then controlled most of Yemen. ... While Saudi Arabia continues to restrict access to the Houthi-controlled north – where airstrikes are being conducted – the Yemeni government has allowedÃâà...
Middle East Monitor
March 6, 2018
... has sentenced a Yemeni man to 10 years in prison on charges of belonging to Al-Qaeda and accusing the Saudi and Kuwaiti governments of blasphemy. ... court found “the defendant guilty of belonging to Al-Qaeda terrorist group in Yemen and planning to travel there to pledge allegiance to its leader”.
DAWN.com
March 4, 2018
Three Pakistani fishermen are said to be languishing in a Yemeni prison for more than a decade, DawnNews reported on Sunday. ... Family members of Imam Baksh said Yemeni authorities had reportedly arrested 11 fishermen when they allegedly drifted into Yemen's territorial water after losing way in theÃâà...
The Hill
March 1, 2018
Civil war has overtaken Yemen since early 2015 when Houthi rebels took over the capital of Sanaa and President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi fled to the southern city of Aden. Saudi Arabia, concerned about Iran's support of the Houthis in a neighboring country, formed a coalition and intervened in support ofÃâà...
Baha'i World News Service
February 28, 2018
Currently, seven Baha'is are in prison in Sana'a and have been denied basic human rights. Among them, Hamed bin Haydara has been held the longest. Mr. Haydara was sentenced to death by the Specialized Criminal Court in Sana'a, Yemen, on 2 January 2018. He has been in prison since DecemberÃâà...
UN News
February 28, 2018
A destructive pattern of zero-sum politics has plunged Yemen into ever deeper poverty and desolation, the United Nations envoy for the war-torn country said Tuesday, emphasizing that while the UN and the wider international community can try to bring about a favourable environment for a path to peace,Ãâà...
Kansas City Star
February 21, 2018
A prominent human rights activist in Bahrain was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison over tweets alleging prison torture in his country and misconduct in Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen, despite wide international criticism of his trial. Nabeel Rajab's sentencing marks the latest chapter in a yearslongÃâà...
Middle East Eye
February 18, 2018
Abu Dhabi is responsible for training tens of thousands of Yemeni troops in the south and importing hundreds of highly skilled mercenaries from South America to fight on its behalf. The UAE is operating a network of torture prisons in southern Yemen, where thousands of terror suspects are “disappearing”Ãâà...
Middle East Monitor
February 12, 2018
In an important breakthrough in the Yemen conflict, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have been given access to prisons in Aden and Sana'a. Hailing the decision yesterday, the organisation said it will allow families to discover the fate of their loved ones. “We are encouraged by the visitsÃâà...
Saudi Gazette
February 5, 2018
... are 64 Egyptian detainees including suicide bomber Talha Hisham Mohammed Abdo who tried to explode a mosque in Al-Ahsa. When they were discovered, his partner exploded himself and the Egyptian terrorist sustained serious injuries of which he was treated at the hospital and later sent to prison.
HuffPost
December 31, 1999
CIA Director Mike Pompeo has overseen U.S. intelligence collection in Yemen in a campaign closely intertwined with the United Arab Emirates. ... On June 22, two more appeared: A Human Rights Watch investigation noted the existence of 11 informal prisons and claims that detainees were beingÃâà...
Amnesty International
December 31, 1999
Since the Huthi armed group and its allies took control of large parts of Yemen in late 2014, thousands of people have been arbitrarily detained, forcibly disappeared, and tortured on the basis of their perceived political allegiance or religious beliefs, rights groups say. Amnesty International and other localÃâà...
The Keene Sentinel
December 31, 1999
Yemeni families were desperately searching for male relatives in the shattered country after its former president was killed. ... “If the men talk to the Houthis, they go to jail. ... Its members had spent plenty of time outside prison gates in Yemen seeking information about missing relatives before they united.
