AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CALLS HOUTHI REBELS TO RELEASE YEMENI ACTIVIST HISHAM AL-OMEISY IMMEDIATELY
PHOTO Hisham Al-Omeisy was interviewed on the ABC two weeks ago calling for more humanitarian aid for Yemen. Yemeni anti-war activist and political analyst Hisham Al-Omeisy was pulled off the streets of the Yemeni capital Sanaa by 15 armed security officers on Monday, August 14. Key points: •Hisham Al-Omeisy is being detained "in breach of Yemen's constitution", •Amnesty says The NGO is calling on Houthi rebels to release him immediately •The high-profile activist is being detained incommunicado and without charge, Amnesty says Amnesty International says the 38-year-old father of two young sons has been detained since then by Yemen's Houthi-Saleh forces without access to a lawyer or his family. The NGO is calling on the Houthi's National Security Bureau (NSB) to immediately and unconditionally release the leading political activist, saying that four days after his arrest, the NSB are still holding Mr Al-Omeisy incommunicado in an undisclosed location. "Hisham...