This report sets out Amnesty International’s assessment of security and human rights issues in Yemen. The report draws on evidence gathered during a two-week research visit to Yemen in March 2010, during which Amnesty International delegates interviewed dozens of families displaced by the conflict in Sa’dah and dozens of survivors of human rights violations and relatives of victims. The report urges the Yemeni government to stop violating human rights in the name of countering terrorism. Amnesty refers to the Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers was a valuable source of the confidentiality of information discussed between lawyers and their clients.