Yemen

Yemeni newspaper blockaded - 11 May 2009

A blockade by security forces of the offices of a Yemeni newspaper, aiming to prevent distribution of copies of the paper, has entered its second week.

Yemeni woman faces execution following political interference in her case - 22 April 2009

A Yemeni woman is facing imminent execution accused of killing her husband only days after the execution of another woman for similar charges. 

Cruel, discriminatory, unfair and degrading – the death penalty in 2008 - 23 March 2009

More people were executed in Asia than in any other part of the world in 2008. By contrast, in Europe, only one country continues to use the death penalty: Belarus.

Secrecy surrounds death penalty - 15 April 2008

At least 1,200 people were executed in 2007 and many more were killed by the state, in secret, in countries including China, Mongolia and Viet Nam.

Former detainee reveals details of secret CIA program - 14 March 2008

A man who spent nearly three years in secret CIA detention spoke exclusively to Amnesty International about his ordeal.

The world shouts 'Close Guantánamo' - 16 January 2008

Thousands join worldwide protests marking the sixth anniversary of the first transfers of detainees to Guantánamo on 11 January.

Audio: Poems from Guantánamo, the detainees speak - 12 December 2007

In the latest edition of the Amnesty International Podcast, a selection of poems by Gunatánamo Bay detainees are read out.
Yemen - Amnesty International Yemen website

Dozens of people arrested in previous years in the context of the "war on terror" remained in indefinite detention without trial.

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