In Yemen, Mothers Of Detained Won't Stop Protests Till Their Sons Are Freed
Mothers of detained journalists and activists in Yemen are protesting in public and seeking out international help.
The mothers of Yemen's disappeared fill city streets with the sound of their chants.
They protest outside the prisons that hold their sons, and the offices of human rights workers they feel should do more to help.
In Yemen's conservative society, women are rarely prominent in public life. But the women of the Abductees' Mothers' Association make themselves hard to ignore.
They parade carrying fake corpses on stretchers. They bring with them the children of the jailed. In one recent protest, they banged spoons on plates, incessantly, outside the office of the country's High Commissioner for Human rights.
