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November 10, 2014, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) welcomed the U.S. Department of the Treasury order to sanction the former President of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh, and two military commanders affiliated with the Huthi group (or “Ansar Allah”). In 2012, CCR called for the Department of Justice to open a criminal investigation into grave human rights abuses committed against peaceful Yemeni protesters by security forces under Saleh’s control in 2011. More than three years later, no-one has yet been held to account.
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