Rights group: Detainees in overcrowded Yemen prison at risk of COVID-19 - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

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Al-Monitor Staff

Jul 2, 2020

Southern Yemeni separatist fighters stand guard outside the headquarters of the Southern Transitional Council in Aden, Yemen, Nov. 5, 2019. — REUTERS/Fawaz Salman

Yemeni prisoners, said to belong the Saudi-backed government forces, react following their release by the Huthi rebels from the central prison in the capital Sanaa before being handed over to their families on September 30, 2019. - Yemen's Huthi rebels have freed 290 prisoners, including dozens of survivors from a Saudi-led coalition strike on a detention centre earlier this month, the ICRC said. The International Committee of the Red Cross hailed the move as "a positive step that will hopefully revive the

Horrific patterns of torture catalogued in Yemen’s unofficial prisons

Elizabeth Hagedorn

Elizabeth Hagedorn

In Washington, DC, reporting on diplomacy, regional politics, human rights

Boxes containing vials of the AstraZeneca/COVISHIELD vaccine (a version of the vaccine produced in India) against the coronavirus, are unloaded upon the arrival of the first shipment at the airport of Yemen's southern port city of Aden, on March 31, 2021.

Yemen gets first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines

Al-Monitor Staff

Al-Monitor Staff

Yemen’s warring parties urged to reveal whereabouts of detainees

Elizabeth Hagedorn

Elizabeth Hagedorn

In Washington, DC, reporting on diplomacy, regional politics, human rights

People recovering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are pictured at a quarantine ward of a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen June 11, 2020. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah - RC217H9IXKHA

Yemen’s health care system collapses as virus spreads

Al-Monitor Staff

Al-Monitor Staff