Since 1985, eight countries have executed juvenile offenders - those sentenced to death for crimes committed when they were under 18 - even though international ...
According to press reports security forces at Aden International Airport arrested a group of Yemeni passengers on 9 August. They were reportedly in possession of ...
Mubarak Salih al-Zaydi, aged about 16, was taken from his home in Sana'a by members of the al-Amn al-Siyassi (Political Security). He and others arrested with him ...
1. Algeria: Thousands brutally killed during state of emergency. 2. Yemen: Prisoners released. 3. Indonesia / East Timor: World spotlight turned on human rights ...
1. Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: Ethnic Albanians suffer violent attacks by police in Kosovo; 2. Thailand: Refugees face detention, fines and deportation; 3. ...
All those named above, plus at least six others, have been executed over the past month. They had all been convicted of premeditated murder. There is grave concern ...
This report is based on the findings of an AI delegation which visited Yemen in July 1994 to research allegations of human rights abuses reported to have been ...
1. USA: New crime bill criticized for expansion of federal death penalty; 2. Togo: New government fails to put human rights on its agenda; 3. Yemen: Human rights ...
'Ali Muhammad Qassim al-Mefalhi was arrested by Political Security forces on 15 August 1994 in Ta'iz and has since been held in incommunicado detention at an unknown ...