This young political activist was one of the leading figures in the 2011 revolution against the corrupt Saleh family dictatorship, in the Yemen’s ‘Jasmine’ version of the Arab Spring.
Journalist Tawakkol Karman continues to play an essential role in Yemeni political culture, despite enduring arrest, imprisonment and vilification throughout the revolution against Ali Abdullah Saleh, who was deposed in 2012 after three decades in power.
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