26 year old activist Iman Saleh is now going on her fourth day of a hunger strike in Washington D.C to Protest U.S. Support for the Saudi-led Blockade on Yemen.
Iman will be joined by four additional Yemeni activists from Detroit Thursday (tomorrow) who will also be hunger striking.
Yemeni-American organizers led by the grassroots group Yemeni Liberation Movement (YLM) have been hunger striking in Washington D.C. since March 29. The hunger strikers are demanding an end to any U.S. support for the blockade — including military, intelligence, diplomatic, or other support — and call for President Biden to use all diplomatic tools to pressure Saudi Arabian dictator Mohammed bin Salman to end it.
Calls for an immediate end to the blockade have become widespread after CNN aired a groundbreaking report on March 10.
According to a joint statement by four leading United Nations agencies in February 2021, nearly 2.3 million children under the age of five in Yemen are projected to suffer from acute malnutrition, with 400,000 expected to suffer from severe acute malnutrition that will lead to death. A nearly 25 percent increase since the escalation of the conflict in 2015.
The Yemeni Activists are using hashtags #YemenCantWait and #HungerStrikeForYemen to call attention to this critical action. The hunger strike is receiving increased endorsements from local, grassroots organizations.
See Iman’s poignant video as she shares her experience so far.