Amat al-Aleem al-Asbahi
Amat al-Aleem al-Asbahi was a Yemeni charity worker and campaigner for female literacy. On 25 December 2016 she was shot dead by two motorcyclists as she walked in the streets of Taiz. Islamic fundamentalists in Yemen opposed Al-Asbahi's work. In September 2016 a Taiz imam issued a fatwa declaring that women activists should not mix with men in their efforts. This fatwa led women to limit their work or undertake it secretly, and may have encouraged Al-Asbahi's assassination. Al-Asbahi was also a relative of Abdu al-Ganadi, the pro-Houthi governor of Taiz, leading family members to claim that hardliners from the anti-Houthi Popular Resistance Committees had murdered her.
No arrests were made for Al-Asbahi's murder, and local reporters feared reprisals if they wrote about it.
