Hoda Al Sarari

Huda El-Sarari or Hoda El-Sarari; Hoda Al Sarari (; born c. 1978 ) is a Yemeni human rights lawyer. She was awarded the Martin Ennals Award for exposing secret prisons operating by foreign governments in Yemen, which led to the release of 260 people from unlawful detention.

Life Huda El-Sarari graduated with a law degree and later completed a master's in Women's Studies at Aden University in 2011. She later began working to challenge human rights abuses, collaborating with the Yemeni Women’s Union, the Adala Foundation for Rights and Freedoms, and the National Committee to Investigate Allegations of Human Rights Violations.

In 2015, Huda El-Sarari contacted Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch after discovering that people were being detained and mistreated in jails organised by foreigners in Yemen. Although she pursued the issue through the Yemeni courts, no information was produced. Using social media, she eventually uncovered the existence of prisons in Yemen that the judicial system was unaware of. In 2017, the story was revealed by the Associated Press, using much of her research to substantiate the report.

While over 2,000 people remain missing, she managed to form the "Union of Mothers of Abductees" and 260 prisoners have been released. in Geneva in February 2020. Martin Ennals Award in 2020