Yemen: Southern Transitional Council must end crackdown on civic space

Fighters affiliated with Yemen's separatist Southern Transitional Council (STC) deploy around the site of a reported explosion in the Khormaksar area of Yemen's southern city of Aden, on June 29, 2022. - At least seven people were killed in a car blast targeting "the convoy of the Lahij governorate security director, Saleh al-Sayed", who survived the attempt in the Yemeni government-controlled city of Aden, a source told AFP. (Photo by Saleh OBAIDI / AFP) (Photo by SALEH OBAIDI/AFP via Getty Images)

The Southern Transitional Council (STC) de facto authorities must end their ongoing unlawful and arbitrary restrictions on the work of civil society organizations and human rights defenders in the southern governorate of Aden, Amnesty International said today. Since early 2023, the STC has adopted a series of measures that increasingly restrict the work of Yemeni … Continue reading Yemen: Southern Transitional Council must end crackdown on civic space