Healthcare for prisoners in international and Yemeni law (Coronavirus/COVID-19 case)

International conventions have given paramount importance to prisoners' health rights, recognizing their crucial role in rehabilitating and reforming prisoners, paving the way for their reintegration into society as productive members. This has influenced the evolution of penal philosophy in national legislation, including Yemeni law, which has strived to humanize its provisions. All of this has been of great significance in establishing the preservation of human dignity for this group, particularly in the crucial area of ​​healthcare, both internationally and nationally.

Therefore, this study aims to examine prisoners' health rights according to international conventions, using Yemeni legislation as a comparative model, and to identify the mechanisms for ensuring respect for prisoners' rights in international and Yemeni practice. The study focuses on how to address the exceptional global pandemic of COVID-19, which posed the greatest and most serious threat to all detainees and prisoners.

Hence, the central problem of this study is the need to delve deeply into the extent of international and national attention given to preserving and protecting prisoners' health rights. This is what we sought to achieve by scrutinizing international and national (Yemeni) mechanisms.

 In pursuit of this, we adopted a descriptive and analytical approach by studying and analyzing legal texts in various international conventions and in the provisions of the Yemeni Prisons Organization Law, and through comparison between them, we arrived at the conclusions and recommendations we reached, all of which emphasize the necessity of adhering to all means of protection and health care guaranteed to the prisoner internationally and nationally.