{"id":300855,"date":"2017-03-26T23:33:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T22:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/hands-off-london-protesters-stand-up-against-saudi-intervention-in-yemen\/"},"modified":"2017-03-26T23:33:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T22:33:06","slug":"hands-off-london-protesters-stand-up-against-saudi-intervention-in-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/hands-off-london-protesters-stand-up-against-saudi-intervention-in-yemen\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hands off\u2019: London protesters stand up against Saudi intervention in Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p><time class=\"date date_article-header\">Published time: 26 Mar, 2017 21:15<\/time><\/p>\n<p>        Groups of protesters gathered in central London on Sunday to protest Saudi Arabia\u2019s military intervention in neighboring Yemen. <\/p>\n<div class=\"article__text text  js-mediator-article\">\n<p>It\u2019s been two years since Saudi fighter jets launched a bombing campaign against Yemen\u2019s Houthi rebels, after they gained control of a number of cities and forced former President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi to flee the nation.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/380929-yemen-russian-aid-arrives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE: Russian humanitarian aid arrives in Yemen<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, dozens of protesters met at Marble Arch, near London\u2019s Hyde Park, to show their solidarity with people caught up in the long-running conflict.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oRIWf_yUPrA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Demonstrators also marched towards the BBC offices, carrying signs emblazoned with <em>\u201cEnd Yemen Siege\u201d <\/em>and<em> \u201cHands Off Yemen.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One protester told RT\u2019s Ruptly video agency that Britain\u2019s weapon sales to Saudi Arabia are a <em>\u201chuge contradiction in British policy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis military assistance is the very assistance that is bombing the ports and roads, where the aid needs to go into Yemen to help the starving Yemenis,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"arcticle__read-more read-more\">\n<p>Read more<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"read-more__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/382337-yemen-protest-saudi-airstrikes\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"read-more__cover\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.rt.com\/files\/2017.03\/thumbnail\/58d79eddc46188db098b4614.jpg\" alt=\"Supporters of the Houthi movement and Yemen's former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, Sanaa, Yemen March 26, 2017. \u00a9 Khaled Abdullah\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>The conflict in Yemen between the Houthi and a coalition of Arab states led by Saudi Arabia has now claimed more than 10,000 lives in two years, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-yemen-security-protests-idUSKBN16X0R9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reuters<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Allegations of war crimes have been leveled against various parties to the conflict and last week the United Nations human rights deputy chief called for an independent probe to investigate human rights violations.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe encourage the Yemeni National Commission to make progress on all aspects of its mandate to investigate all allegations of violations of international law and Yemeni law, including those that go beyond the extent of the Commission\u2019s cooperation with OHCHR,\u201d<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/apps\/news\/story.asp?NewsID=56415#.WNgMIm8rJhE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> Kate Gilmore, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights.<\/p>\n<p>The war in Yemen has caused a crisis described by the UN as <em>\u201cone of the world\u2019s worst,\u201d<\/em> with approximately 17 million people in Yemen suffering from acute malnutrition due to dwindling food stocks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/382380-yemen-london-protest-saudi-arabia\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published time: 26 Mar, 2017 21:15 Groups of protesters gathered in central London on Sunday to protest Saudi Arabia\u2019s military intervention in neighboring Yemen. It\u2019s been two years since Saudi fighter jets launched a bombing campaign against Yemen\u2019s Houthi rebels, after they gained control of a number of cities and forced former President Abdrabbuh Mansour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":300856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-300855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}