The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has terminated its contract with its representative in Yemen, Al-Obaid Ahmed Al-Obaid, at the request of the Houthis, UN sources ..

Yemeni lawyer and human rights activist Huda Al-Sarari won the 2020 Martin Ennals Human Rights Defenders Award in Geneva on Wednesday for exposing torture and enforced ..

Houthi gunfire and landmines killed 70 civilians in January, according to a report by the Yemeni Network for Human Rights and Freedoms, viewed by Almasdar Online. The rights ..

For the ninth consecutive day, Yemeni journalist and human rights activist Hamza Al-Hammadi remains detained by Kuwaiti authorities since February 7th. He is facing deportation ..

Yemen’s Minister of Human Rights Mohammed Askar commemorated International Human Rights Day by honoring Aden security chief Major General Shallal Shaye’a, a ..

A report issued by the Observatory for Media Freedoms revealed that 12 violations against media freedom were recorded in Yemen in September and October. According to the ..

A report entitled  "Under the Oppression," prepared by the Office of the Ministry of Human Rights in the Capital, was released on Sunday in Marib. The report ..

(15, October, 2019), 3 detainees in al-Thawra prison in Sana’a have started a hunger strike, protesting the unhealthy conditions and demanding to be released. The detainees, ..

emeni students who have scholarships in India held a protest to demand their outstanding payments.    (9, October, 2019), Five recent cholera  deaths in ..

(1, October, 2019), More than 30 camps and houses were swept away and destroyed by flooding in al-Jafina area in Marib governorate, displacing dozens of families.   ..

“All of the weapons that the [Houthis] possess is thanks to our aid.” With this clear sentence, the senior official in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), ..

Authorities in Jordan have arrested a former member of parliament and royal critic on various charges, including "assaulting the king and the queen", according to ..

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has terminated its contract with its representative in Yemen, Al-Obaid Ahmed Al-Obaid, at the request of the Houthis, UN sources ..

The Mothers of Abductees Association announced on Saturday it has received information about a suspected outbreak of COVID-19 among prisoners and detainees in the Central Prison in..

A Russian drive to recruit Syrians to fight in Libya for militia leader Khalifa Haftar accelerated in May when hundreds of mercenaries were signed up, five Syrian opposition ..

Russian air raids have targeted Syria's last major rebel-held enclave in the country's northwest for the first time since a March ceasefire came into effect, Syria's ..

The UN on Tuesday raised only around half the required $2.41 billion in humanitarian aid for Yemen, ravaged by war and coronavirus, at a donor conference co-hosted by Saudi Arabia ..

The Association of Mothers of Abductees has gathered testimony from the families of imprisoned journalists accusing the Houthis of financial extortion. In a statement issued on ..

The UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) said in a statement released Sunday that there has been a significant decrease in the number of migrants traveling ..

Samera al-Huri’s fellow activists were disappearing, one by one. When she asked their families, each gave the same cryptic reply: “She’s traveling.” A few ..

Col. Ali Saeed Al-Kaldi, a member of the Saudi-backed initiative to free Yemen of landmines known as MASAM, was killed by a landmine in the Mawza district of Taiz governorate, ..

Israeli air strikes late Monday in the area of the central Syrian city of Palmyra killed nine fighters loyal to the Iran-backed Damascus regime, a war monitor said Tuesday. ..

A funeral was held in the port city of Al-Mocha in Hodeidah governorate on Sunday for government liaison officer Mohammed Al-Sulaihi, who passed away Friday from injuries sustained..

Former Minister of Culture Khaled Al-Rowaishan was abducted by the Houthis on Sunday morning from his home in the capital Sana’a, where he has resided since the start of the ..

The Ministry of Human Rights condemned on Saturday the decision by a Houthi-controlled court earlier that day to sentence four Yemeni journalists to death. The ministry and several..

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said in a statement that the bombing of the central prison in Taiz, allegedly carried out by the Houthis, could amount to a ..

The Houthis’ top official on prisoner affairs said Monday that the UN has proposed splitting up the first phase of a massive prisoner exchange agreed to in mid-March in ..

Houthi artillery shells killed five women and a child and injured 28 others at the Central Prison in Taiz city on Sunday, an official in the local prosecutor's office told ..

Amid fears that coronavirus will reach Yemen, the Association of Mothers of Abductees held a vigil in front of the Saudi-led coalition headquarters in the interim capital on ..

Yemeni activists have launched a massive social media campaign on Tuesday to release all prisoners and detainees from Yemeni prisons as the coronavirus pandemic sweeps across the ..

A Houthi-run civil court in central Yemen's Ibb governorate has annulled the marriage of a 10-year-old girl to a lawyer handling her previous marriage to a 40-year-old man..

Houthi officials have gone quiet days after a video of a Yemeni woman detailing her three-month abduction has gone viral on social media, where she appears to accuse the group of ..

A Houthi-run appeals court reaffirmed the death sentence of Baha’i religious leader Hamid Bin Haydara on Sunday and ordered the confiscation of his assets and the dissolution..

We are sitting at the Ivy brasserie in West London’s St. John’s Wood. Muna Luqman is dressed in an elegant headscarf and a T-shirt which reads, “Have courage and ..

Hunched over sewing machines in a long abandoned factory in Yemen’s capital Sanaa, 20 women stitch face masks as a country ravaged by war, hunger and disease prepares for the..

Nearly 45 days after Saudi forces in Yemen’s southern coastal city of Aden formed a committee to uncover the fate of forcibly disappeared prisoners there, the family members ..

A recently released Houthi captive died on Wednesday after succumbing to illnesses from torture he suffered in a secret prison in Ibb governorate in central Yemen.  Mustafa..

Syria’s war-battered Idlib region was quiet but tense on Friday as a ceasefire deal between Moscow and Ankara took effect, with residents and opposition forces describing a ..

Syrian government forces entered parts of a strategic rebel-held town on Monday, and Turkey said it would keep hitting President Bashar al-Assad’s troops after ramping up ..

British foreign minister Dominic Raab will on Monday begin his first official visit to the Gulf for talks with leaders in Saudi Arabia and Oman, expected to cover trade, human ..

For the fifth year in a row, the Houthis continue to recruit hundreds of teenagers and young children from Dhamar governorate in central Yemen to shore up their military ..

Six people have been killed in an Israeli air attack on Damascus, a war monitor said on Monday, as Israel confirmed raids on the Syrian capital as well as on the besieged Gaza ..

Candidates affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards looked on course to win a parliamentary majority on Saturday, reportedly leading in the race in Tehran and towns and ..

Yemeni lawyer and human rights activist Huda Al-Sarari won the 2020 Martin Ennals Human Rights Defenders Award in Geneva on Wednesday for exposing torture and enforced ..

Houthi gunfire and landmines killed 70 civilians in January, according to a report by the Yemeni Network for Human Rights and Freedoms, viewed by Almasdar Online. The rights ..

Hardliners are set to tighten control of Iran this week in a parliamentary election stacked in their favor, as the leadership closes ranks in a deepening confrontation with ..

Syria’s military announced on Monday that its troops have regained control of territories in northwestern Syria “in record time,” vowing to continue to chase ..

For the ninth consecutive day, Yemeni journalist and human rights activist Hamza Al-Hammadi remains detained by Kuwaiti authorities since February 7th. He is facing deportation ..

On 31 January 2020, the United Kingdom left the European Union. We lost a member of our family. It was a sad moment for us, for European citizens – and, indeed, for many ..

Huda Al-Sarari, a prominent Aden-based lawyer and human rights activist, told Almasdar Online on Wednesday that seven of the detainees at the UAE-run Bir Ahmed prison in the ..

Houthi authorities returned the bodies of six children to their families in the northwest city of Dhamar on Tuesday, 45 days after they were abducted from the Al-Jamarek ..

A high-level European Union (EU) delegation arrived in Sana’a on Sunday to meet with Houthi leaders following an earlier visit to Aden, Yemen’s interim capital, ..

Yemen’s Association of Mothers of Abductees conducted a two-day hunger strike that ran into Thursday morning to demand the release of their children held in the UAE-supported..

It was a heartbreaking moment when the prisoners began to tell each other how their stories began: kidnapping, forcible disappearance, imprisonment and torture. Suddenly they start..

On the evening of Dec. 5, Brig. Gen. Musfer Al-Harithi, director of monitoring and inspection at Yemen’s Ministry of Defense, was driving through the Sheikh Othman ..

Houthi authorities have held thousands of mandatory propaganda events for teachers and students in Sana’a governorate aimed at mobilizing large groups of fighters, according ..

Senior Houthi leader Mohammed Ali Al-Houthi has called for new legislation allowing the sale of the homes of state leaders who live abroad, as a way to pay for the salaries of ..

The Office of Social Affairs and Labor (OSAL) in Marib governorate has started rehabbing a new batch of Houthi child soldiers captured in war zones.  A total of 13 ..

The mother of imprisoned journalist Hassan Annab passed away Thursday after waiting nearly five years for his release. Houthi militants abducted Annab, along with nine other ..

At least one elderly man was killed and three women and a child were injured during the attacks on the village of Al-Masaqara in eastern Dhamar governorate on Thursday.  ..

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Yemen confirmed Wednesday that a day earlier it was able to bring humanitarian aid to the city of Al-Duraihimi in southern ..

Yemen’s Minister of Human Rights Mohammed Askar commemorated International Human Rights Day by honoring Aden security chief Major General Shallal Shaye’a, a ..

Journalists and activists held a vigil in Marib on Tuesday to denounce the arbitrary arrest and detention of 10 journalists by the Houthis for almost five years. In a statement ..

The Saudi-led coalition air force deliberately targeted prisoners who survived the bombing of a community college prison in Dhamar governorate in early September, while members of ..

In a report entitled "Slow Death", the organization highlighted abuses against sick detainees in Houthi prisons The organization condemned cases of "medical ..

Khaled Mohammed Al-Heeth, 43, was a government employee at the Yemeni Ministry of Culture, the breadwinner of a middle class family, and a virtuous teacher for many of the ..

The Defense Committee of Detainees and Abductees said that the Specialized Criminal Court, which is under Houthi control in the capital Sanaa, has referred the trial file of 10 ..

A report entitled  "Under the Oppression," prepared by the Office of the Ministry of Human Rights in the Capital, was released on Sunday in Marib. The report ..

Three students were wounded by gunfire during an attack by Abu Al-Abbas brigades of the 35th Armored Brigade as they stormed a school on Wednesday morning in Al-Ma’afar ..

In overseeing a reconciliation agreement between the Yemeni government and the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC), Saudi Arabia has reached a pivotal moment in its ..

Senior officials and mediators from both warring parties held a meeting in Taiz city on Thursday to advance negotiations to lift the Houthi-imposed siege on the city. A delegation ..

Since its founding in 1945, the United Nations has not been insulted in a country, as happened in Yemen by the Houthi group. A few weeks ago, al-Houthi militia expelled the ..

The mothers of the abductees called on the leadership of the Arab Coalition represented in Saudi Arabia to reveal the fate of dozens of abductees and forcibly disappeared in the ..

emeni students who have scholarships in India held a protest to demand their outstanding payments.    (9, October, 2019), Five recent cholera  deaths in ..

(1, October, 2019), More than 30 camps and houses were swept away and destroyed by flooding in al-Jafina area in Marib governorate, displacing dozens of families.   ..

“The future for our defence sector is a very bright one.” So said Fleur Thomas, head of exports for the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence, as her ..

(Beirut) – Saudi-led coalition naval forces have carried out at least five deadly attacks on Yemeni fishing boats since 2018, Human Rights Watch said today. ..

  (Addis Ababa) – Ethiopians undertaking the perilous journey by boat across the Red Sea or Gulf of Aden face exploitation and torture in Yemen by..