Yemen
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- in transition
- CONSTITUTION
- May 16, 1991, amended on September 29, 1994, and in February 2001
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on Islamic law, Turkish, English, and local tribal customs
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- bicameral, consisting of the Shura Council and House of Representatives
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court
RELIGIONS
Muslim majority, Jewish, Christian, and Hindu minorities
From the country
NOVEMBER 24, 2025YemenDEATH PENALTYYEMEN: HOUTHIS SENTENCE 17 TO DEATH OVER ALLEGED SPYING FOR ISRAEL, US, SAUDI ARABIA
A court operating under Yemen’s Houthi rebels on November 23, 2025 sentenced 17 people to death for allegedly spying on behalf of Israel, the United States and Saudi Arabia, rebel media said.
- JULY 16, 2025YemenDEATH PENALTY
YEMEN POSTPONES EXECUTION OF INDIAN NURSE ON DEATH ROW
Authorities in Yemen have postponed the execution of an Indian nurse who is on death row after being found guilty of murder, Indian foreign ministry sources say.
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024YemenDEATH PENALTYYEMEN: JOURNALIST SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HOUTHI-CONTROLLED GROUP
The owner of media companies Yemen Digital Media and Yemen Live for Media Production and Satellite Broadcasting, Taha Ahmed Rashid Al-Maamari, on September 24, 2024 was sentenced to death by a Houthi-controlled court
- JUNE 3, 2024YemenDEATH PENALTY
YEMEN: HOUTHIS SENTENCE 44 TO DEATH ON CHARGES OF COLLABORATION WITH A SAUDI-LED COALITION
A court run by Yemen's Houthi rebels on June 1st, 2024 sentenced 44 people to death, including a businessman working with aid groups, on spying charges, a defense lawyer said.
- MARCH 27, 2024YemenDEATH PENALTY
YEMEN: HOUTHIS SENTENCE MEN TO DEATH, FLOGGING
A Houthi court sentenced 32 men, 9 of them to death, on January 23, 2024, in an unfair mass trial based on dubious charges of “sodomy,” Human Rights Watch said on March 27, 2024.
FEBRUARY 6, 2024YemenDEATH PENALTYYEMEN: 13 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR HOMOSEXUALITY
A Huthi-run court in Yemen has sentenced 13 people to public execution on homosexuality charges, a judicial source said on February 2, 2024
- DECEMBER 12, 2023IndiaDEATH PENALTY
MOTHER OF NURSE FACING EXECUTION IN YEMEN TOLD TO EXPLAIN ‘BLOOD MONEY’
The Delhi High Court on December 11, 2023 directed Premakumari, the mother of Nimisha Priya, a Kerala nurse facing a death sentence in Yemen for her involvement in the murder of a local citizen, to furnish documents illustrating the legal option of blood
DECEMBER 6, 2023YemenDEATH PENALTYYEMEN: HUTHIS SENTENCE RIGHTS ACTIVIST TO DEATH
A Yemeni human rights activist has been sentenced to death on spying charges by a court in Sanaa, the country's Huthi-held capital, her lawyer told AFP on December 5, 2023.
- OCTOBER 5, 2023YemenDEATH PENALTY
YEMEN: FOUR SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER KIDNAPPING OF MSF AID WORKERS
A court in Yemen’s southeastern province of Hadramout on October 3, 2023 sentenced four Yemenis to death for kidnapping international humanitarian workers last year.
APRIL 26, 2023YemenDEATH PENALTYYEMEN: FOUR JOURNALISTS ON DEATH ROW RELEASED IN PRISONER EXCHANGE
Journalists Tawfiq Al-Mansoori, Abdul Khaleq Amran, Akram Al-Waleedi and Hareth Humaid, who had been sentenced to death for their journalistic work, have been released as part of a prisoner exchange on 16 April 2023, they had spent eight years behind bars
- FEBRUARY 20, 2023YemenDEATH PENALTY
YEMEN: FATHER PARDONS KILLER OF HIS SON MOMENTS BEFORE EXECUTION
A leader of a Yemeni tribe in the Ma’rib governorate pardoned the killer of his son on 20 February 2023, moments before his execution, local media reported.
JANUARY 9, 2023YemenDEATH PENALTYYEMEN: THE HOUTHIS HAVE SENTENCED 350 OF THEIR OPPONENTS TO DEATH
Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have issued 350 death sentences since seizing power in a 2014 coup.