Yemen: SAF protesting the attack on their headquarters in Sana'a



On Sunday 22nd of November 2009 one of the windows metal  was  broken , drawers were searched and smashed. There was nothing had been taken from the Office from the office such as laptops, cameras, or any valuable devices.

This is not the first incident in recent times against the Office. The wire control system security of brakes of Ms.Basha's car had been deliberately cut on Tuesday 17th of November 2009 as confirmed by a technical report issued by the United Insurance Company.  Also, After Ms.Basha in her ways back from  the Specialized Criminal Court to attend a session of the activists of peaceful movement in the South, anonymous had sprayed a liquid in her face while she was parking her car in the University.

Ms.Basha had been  exposed to repeated harassment over the telephone by a person claims to being a detective of the Assembly. All that comes after SAF and other organizations submitted the  National Second Shadow Report on Torture to the Convention against Torture of the United Nations in Geneva in cooperation with the International Federation for Human Rights(FIDH), Human Rights Watch and the Cairo Center for Human Rights Studies. In addition, the United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) had released on 19th of November 2009 the Provisional concluding  Observations to the Yemeni government in this regard.

There are still copies of the film the Reality of Marginalized Women in Yemen had been produced by the Sisters'Arab Forum for Human Rights (SAF) being held by the National Security at the airport for  more than three months ago. In spite of regular staff are follow-up  Ministry of Media and Ministry of Interior and the concerned authorities.