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The Yemeni abductees wait for the movement of the international community

الإثنين 23 يوليو-تموز 2018 الساعة 07 مساءً / Al-Islah.net - Exclusive
  

The Yemeni abductees in the prisons of the Houthis in Sana'a and the prisons of the security belt in Aden are the only ones who pay the consequences of the war. They have been hidden since years and occasionally come little information about their situation and horrific stories about the level of physical and psychological torture they have been subjected to, which Yemenis only hear in fairy stories.

 

Local and international organizations condemned these outlaw acts and called for the opening of wide investigations and the speedy release of prisoners without conditions. These prisons lack the simplest basic human rights, and their humanitarian and health conditions are unknown.

 

The Netherlands-based foundation for human rights in the Arab world, Rights Radar (RR) called on the United Nations to urgently include the issue of victims of torture in particular and detainees in general on the agenda of the special UN envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffith, to save the lives of detainees after the number of deaths occurred in secret prisons to those parties violating human rights.

 

Torture cases in Sana'a, Aden and Hadhramout have escalated dramatically in recent years, with 121 cases of torture occurring since the beginning of the war in Yemen three and a half years ago, while the situations of dozens of detainees have not been identified until this moment and they are still being forcibly disappeared without knowing their families anything about them, some have been forcibly disappeared since the events of 2011.

 

n the middle of this month, the former 30-year-old detainee Dr. Munir Muhammad Qaeed al-Kindi al-Sharqi, was found by citizens after he was thrown by Houthi gunmen on a road from abroad a car with a motto of the group, where they believed he had died.

 

In a press conference on Saturday in the city of Marib east of the country, al-Sharqi spoke about the extent of brutal torture he suffered during his stay in the Houthis prisons before he was thrown into a shantytown in the town of Sharaab al-Salam in Taiz governorate. He was in a very poor health of the severity of torture.

 

According to the organization's monitors, the central prison in Dhamar is overcrowded with large numbers of abductees and detainees, exceeding the prison capacity, while the health risks of prisoners deprived of health and psychological care have doubled at its simplest level.

 

The same thing is repeated in Sana'a, Amran, Saada and Hajjah, and like that in Aden and Hadramout governorates, all of which operate outside the official authorities and without any knowledge by local and international organizations.

 

And Rights Radar observed the attestation of the French citizen Marok Abdul Qadir, who remained more than two years and a half in prisons of Houthi group in Sana'a since January 2016 when was kidnapped by Houthis gunmen from the International Sanaa Airport during his intention to leave Yemen, and remained in prison until mid-July of 2018.

 

After his release and his arrival to the city of Marib, Marok told reporters and lawyers that the Houthis practiced various types of physical and psychological torture against him, some of the effects of torture were visible on his body, and they were forcing him to confess fabricated charges and when he refused, they resumed the practice of torturing on him until he lost consciousness.

 

He pointed out that there are a large number of Yemeni detainees in the prison of political security in Sana'a were subjected to brutal torture, including the detainee Jamal al-Maamari, who was paralyzed and permanently disabled due to the torture of the Houthis in their detention camps in Sana'a. Marok revealed that a US citizen, John Hyman, died as a result of severe torture by the Houthis.

 

John Hymen died about two weeks after being arrested by Houthi militants when he arrived at Sanaa airport via a UN flight. The Houthi group said, at the time, that he had suicide.

 

The international community continues to refuse to include the Houthis as a terrorist group, or to exert real pressure to release the abductees, or to allow human rights teams visit the prisons and in order to see the situation of the abductees.

 

Over the last three years, the Houthis have opened dozens of secret prisons, which no one knows about, and these prisons are unknown by most of the abductees who have spent their lives inside them, while some official prisons in some liberated cities continue to practice violations of the rule of law in order to harm the legitimacy deliberately.

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