Posted: August 25th, 2010, 2:09pm MSD
[JURIST] Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] on Wednesday criticized [report, PDF; press release] methods used by the government of Yemen [JURIST news archive] in counter-terror operations as violations of human rights. In a report, "Yemen: Cracking Down Under Pressure," the rights group accused the government of perpetrating numerous human right abuses in attempting to quell the rebel movements of the Zaidi Shi'a [Al Jazeera backgrounder] in the north and the Southern Movement, in addition to its US-sponsored actions against al Qaeda [CFR backgrounder]. These alleged abuses include arbitrary arrests, torture, extrajudicial killings and forced disappearances, among other actions taken by...