Postcard from Yemen

Osama Alfakih is on the staff of Mwatana, a Yemeni human rights organization based in Sana’a. He was in Change Square in 2011 for the protests and the crackdown that followed. He tells why, despite the chaos of war that began in 2014 and continues today, he remains dedicated to the cause of human rights. He says he lives on hope.

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