Yemen

October 2008 | Ratings Update

Yemeni officials have rejected a report from Human Rights Watch, which claims that hundreds of people were unlawfully detained during a four-year insurgency by rebels in northern Yemen. The group claimed that arrestees range from those suspected of belonging to the Shi'a insurgency, to members of the small Zaidi sect, to those who had criticised the government's human rights record. Yemen's president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, released some prisoners after declaring an end to the fighting in August this year. Officials claimed that Human Rights Watch's figures were incorrect and based on propaganda from Yemeni opposition groups.

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