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Former Iraqi agents face trial in Yemen for targeting Western embassies
Ahmed Salman Dawd al-Zubaidi, Ahmed Muthanna Jassem Ahmed Al-Aani, and Mohammed Mahdi Abderrahman Aasi al-Kanani, all Iraqi intelligence agents under the Saddam Hussein regime, entered pleas of not guilty Monday as they were arraigned before a Yemen (More) |
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US negotiating with 10 more countries to send Gitmo detainees home
In addition to the deals currently being finalized between the United States and the governments of Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen, the US is negotiating with 10 more Muslim countries to return their citizens held at Guantanamo Bay , the Wash (More) |
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Yemen jails six over embassy attack plots
A Yemeni court on Monday sentenced six men to jail for planning to blow up the British and Italian embassies and the French cultural center in Sanaa. The six men, believed to be members of al Qaeda, received sentences of three months to four years i (More) |
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UPDATE ~ US negotiating with three nations about transfer of Gitmo prisoners
Updating an earlier story, the US is now reportedly engaged in discussions with three countries about the transfer of detainees currently being held in Guantanamo Bay back to their home jurisdictions. A US agreement with Saudi Arabia and Yemen for (More) |
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US secret detentions report [Amnesty International]
Torture and Secret Detention: Testimony of the "Disappeared" in the "War on Terror," Amnesty International, August 3, 2005 . Excerpt:On 20 June 2005, Amnesty International delegates visited two Yemeni detainees said to have recen (More) |
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Amnesty says Yemenis detained by US at secret location
Amnesty International said in a report [text; press release] Wednesday that two men currently held in a Yemeni prison seem to have been kept in clandestine US detention facilities in solitary confinement for almost two years. The group claims that (More) |
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UN criticizes Yemen for lack of human rights progress
The UN Human Rights Committee has criticized Yemen for not incorporating many of its 2002 recommendations for civil and political rights in the country. Some major concerns of the Committee were judicial independence, inequality for women, domest (More) |
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Yemeni foreign minister says US releasing 7 Yemen citizens from Gitmo
Yemen's foreign minister said Sunday that the US has officially agreed to release seven Yemenis currently being held at the US terror detention camp at Guantanamo Bay . Abu Bakr al-Qirbi said a date has not been determined for the prisoners' (More) |
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US judge sentences Yemeni sheikh to 75 years for terror support
US judge Sterling Johnson on Thursday sentenced Yemeni cleric Sheikh Mohammed Ali Hassan al-Moayad, convicted in March of conspiring to support foreign terrorist groups , to 75 years in prison and fined him $1.25 million. Al-Moayad and his assistan (More) |
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Military commissions resumption statement [US DOD]
Press statement on resumption of military commissions, US Department of Defense, July 18, 2005 [indicating that commission proceedings will resume following the July 15 US DC Circuit Court of Appeal ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld]. Excerpt:The Office o (More) |
Netherlands becomes the first country to legalize same-sex marriage and euthanasia
On April 1, 2001, the Netherlands became the first country to legalize same-sex marriage. The nation then became the first country to legalize euthanasia on April 1, 2002.
