Forces of Houthi –Saleh alliance must stop collective punishment and speed up lifting their siege on civilians. Residents are looking for drinking water in Alojainat neighborhood, west of Taiz, on Saturday, October 10,2015. By Abulnaser Alsadeek Fri - (16 Oct 2015) - Sana'a Mwatana Organization for Human Rights has said forces of both Houthi [...]
Photo by Afra'a Alhabori. An air strike hit a residential area in Alrawdha neighborhood, Sana'a, 2015. Civilians were kiled and injured. Sana'a, Mon - (14 Sep 2015) We, the signatories named below, are a group of human rights defenders in the Middle East and North Africa. Whereas we firmly believe in the Universal Declaration of [...]
NEW YORK— April 14, 2015 U.S. drone strikes in Yemen have continued to cause civilian casualties in Yemen even after President Obama declared that they would only be approved if there was a “near-certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured.” A new report from the Open Society Justice Initiative and the Yemen-based Mwatana [...]
Picture for Ala Alghannami in Taiz. The protect of Wednesday March 25, 2015. Sana’a, Monday 30 March 2015 Mwatana Human Rights Organization said that armed men from Ansarullah Group (the Houthis) and individuals from Special Security Forces attacked on Tuesday 24 March 2015 two separate protests in Taiz province in the middle areas of [...]
Sanaa - Saturday, 28, March, 2015. Mwatana Human rights Organization said that at least twenty seven civilians were killed , amongst them fifteen children, and another ten were injured in a Saudi-led air strike that hit a residential compound in Al Noor neighborhood- Beni Hawat east of Sanaa international airport north of the capital [...]
CNN images courtesy Sana'a - Saturday (March 21, 2015) Mwatana Organization for Human Rights has strongly condemned the terrorist attacks that took place in Sana'a, the capital, which targeted Badr and Al-Hashoosh mosques on Friday, March 21, 2015. The deadly attacks claimed one hundred and forty-six lives, including thirty children and wounded three hundred [...]
Sana'a – (Thursday, March 19, 2015) Mwatana Organization for Human Rights has condemned the assassination of the political activist and writer Abdulkareem Alkhaiwani who was shot dead near his house on Raqqas street downtown Sana'a on Wednesday, March 18, 2015. Radhiyah Al-Mutawakil, the Director of Mwatana Organization for Human Rights, said,"The assassinations targeting political [...]
Sana'a - (Thursday, March 12, 2015) Four eye-witnesses told Mwatana Organization for Human Rights that a protester was killed and six others were seriously injured in a fatal attack by the armed group "Ansar Allah" on a peaceful demonstration in Al-Baida city, northern of Yemen. According to the eye-witnesses, the armed men were indiscriminately [...]
Mwatana has demanded "Ansar Allah" group to immediately release the four leaders of the Islah Party. Sana'a - (Thursday, March 5, 2015) Mwatana Organization for Human Rights has said that "Ansar Allah" group has arrested four political activists of the Islah Party in a flagrant violation of the international convent for civil and [...]
Blatant Violations against Journalists and Media Continue Sana’a - Tuesday, October 28th, 2014 Mwatana Organization for Human Rights condemned the violations against journalists and media means mostly by militants of Ansar Allah Group (Houthis), including intimidation, arrest, imposition of restrictions on journalists, preventing journalists from doing their work, or raiding media channels and [...]
