An investigative committee has determined that the death of prisoner Rashid Alawi Isa Al-Hutam at the Marib Political Security Prison on January 26th was a suicide, with no evidence of foul play or legal violations. According to the Yemen News Agency Saba, forensic and autopsy reports confirmed t...
On Thursday, local sources reported that the Iran-backed Houthis temporarily released activist Rabab Al-Mudhwahi. Detained since June in Sana’a alongside several UN and international agency employees, Al-Mudhwahi was allowed a brief reprieve to attend her mother’s funeral. According to...
The U.S. government condemned the death of Ahmed Baalawi, a World Food Programme (WFP) employee, in a Houthi-controlled prison in Saada, Yemen. In a statement released Thursday, February 13, 2025, the State Department expressed solidarity with the UN in condemning Baalawi's death and highlight...
A funeral was held Wednesday, February 12, 2025, in Marib for Colonel Mohammed Ali Al-Nasim, who died shortly after his release from five years of captivity in Houthi prisons. Al-Nasim succumbed to injuries sustained from severe physical and psychological torture inflicted by the Iran-backed Houth...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday condemned the death of a World Food Programme (WFP) staffer while in the custody of the Iran-backed Houthis. In a statement, Guterres expressed his condolences to the family of the deceased staffer, who he said had been arbitrarily detaine...
The Association of Mothers of Abductees has issued an urgent appeal to local and international human rights organizations to intervene and save the life of Ismail Al-Bateena, who has been detained by the Houthi rebels since October 20, 2017. The association reported that Al-Bateena's health h...
A press conference held in Marib on Saturday revealed harrowing accounts of torture and murder perpetrated by the Iran-backed Houthi group. The event, organized by the "Rasd" Organization for Rights and Freedoms, presented graphic evidence, including images and videos, documenting the br...
Human rights sources reported today the death of a detainee in a prison operated by the Iran-backed Houthi group in Al-Bayda Governorate, central Yemen. The individual died just two days after being abducted. Sources accused the Houthis of assassinating Mukhtar Ali Yaqout Al-Ahmadi, a resident ...
Mohammed Ali Al-Naseem, a former prisoner of the Iran-backed Houthi militia, died just days after his release. According to sources close to Al-Naseem, his health had severely deteriorated due to five years of harsh physical and psychological torture while in Houthi detention. Al-Naseem, an o...
Palestinians are eagerly awaiting the release of several prisoners from Israeli jails as part of the Gaza ceasefire agreement, in exchange for hostages held by the Iran-backed Houthi movement in Gaza. However, there is no final agreement on which prisoners will be released, partly because the numb...
On Tuesday, January 7, 2025, the U.S. Department of Defense announced the transfer of 11 Yemeni detainees from the infamous Guantanamo Bay prison to Oman, including Yemeni businessman Abdul Salam al-Hila. In a statement released on Monday, the Pentagon expressed its appreciation for Oman and ot...
Since the Iran-backed Houthi group overran Yemen's capital, Sana'a, on September 21, 2014, its residents have not tasted safety or peace. In addition to the daily life and livelihood challenges they face, they live in constant fear and anxiety, being potential targets for abduction and torture. ...
On December 15, 2024, human rights sources reported that the Iran-aligned Houthi group, classified as a terrorist organization by several countries, has released political activists detained in Ibb province, Yemen, for celebrating the Yemeni Revolution's anniversary in September. Eshraq Al-...
Hassan Al-Qubaisi, a member of the Yemeni government's negotiating team on the prisoner file, stated that the internationally recognized Yemeni government and its negotiating team are keen to achieve an "all-for-all" exchange deal, including the release of politician Mohammed Qahtan....
Ahmed Arman, the Minister of Legal Affairs and Human Rights in Yemen's internationally recognized government, criticized the UN envoy's office's performance regarding negotiations on detainees and prisoners. He accused the office of incompetence, irresponsibility, and pressuring the go...
On December 10, 2024, the National Committee for Prisoners and Abductees, a civil entity in Yemen, hailed the U.S. decision to designate the Houthi Prisoners Committee as a terrorist organization as a positive step towards achieving justice for victims of systematic violations committed by the gro...
On December 9, 2024, multiple Yemeni and Syrian sources reported the identification of a Yemeni doctor who had been forcibly disappeared in the prisons of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad since January 2013. Syrian journalist and activist Omar Madina posted on X (formerly Twitter) that t...
A rights center reported on November 15, 2024, that a man in his sixties died as a result of torture in a Houthi prison after being abducted for a week. According to a statement from the Rased Center for Rights and Development, 65-year-old Hussein Al-Lasheb died Thursday in a Houthi facility in...
On Saturday, November 9, 2024, the rights organization "musawaah" announced the death of a soldier held captive by the Houthi group, designated as a terrorist organization by the international community, after suffering from "severe torture" during his detention since June 2020...
On Thursday, October 31, 2024, a reliable source in the Yemeni capital reported that the Houthi movement, classified as a terrorist organization by the international community, has moved several detainees to secret prisons in anticipation of potential airstrikes. Fares Alhemyari, a reporter for...