SANAA, Yemen, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- A January Human Rights Watch report on Yemen was biased and based on groundless information, Sanaa said.
Human Rights Watch in a January report issued a multipoint bulletin on the complications in Yemen linked to human-rights abuses.
"Efforts to fight al-Qaida in Yemen will be ineffective if they ignore the country's grave human rights situation," said Tom Porteous, London director of Human Rights Watch. "The grievances caused by the government's repressive practices and violations of the laws of war exacerbate Yemen's instability."
The Yemeni Ministry of Human Rights challenged the reports validity, saying the rights group used misinformation and fabrications to justify its review, the official Saba news agency reports.
"It did not separate between the concepts of combating crime and lawbreaking when properties of the people were attacked by some outlaw elements," the ministry said in a statement.
The ministry went on to say Human Rights Watch used unreliable sources and repeated false statements in the report.
Yemen's challenges are complicated by a series of internal threats and a dilapidated infrastructure.
