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‏In a human rights hearing in the city of Aden

‏Mothers and wives review the suffering of searching for their forcibly disappeared relatives

الأربعاء 06 فبراير-شباط 2019 الساعة 08 صباحاً / ‏Al-Islah.net - Follow - ups
 

By: Amat al-Rahman al-Ghafouri & Thuraya Taher

Extremely cruel stories and situations narrated by the wives and mothers of the forcibly hidden and the abductees in Aden. These narrations come blended with tears into the ears a number of human rights figures at a hearing for the families of the abducted and forcibly disappeared, organized this morning at the Foundation for the Defense of Rights and Freedoms - Aden.

 

A wife of one of the detainees arbitrarily in a police station in Aden, in which her husband turned into forcibly hidden, says that her husband was working on a motorcycle when he subjected to a kidnap and she did not know where he is, but accidentally she saw his motorcycle with someone else working on it. She rushed to ask him, but she was surprised when this person told her that he had bought it from an officer in a police station at the Sheikh Osman Directorate. This information was the evidence that led her to her husband, Ahmed Saeed Zain, where she was able to visit and meet him. This wife continues to describe his condition and the effects of the torture that she found on her husband's body in prison, and then cut off her talk because of her crying and collapse in the middle of the hall and then she returns to talk about her husband who, after that, became hidden forcibly and she adds again to talk about her suffering in search of him as well as her working to meet the requirements of her life and her family.

 

In the hall, lawyer Huda al-Sarari, head of the Foundation for the Defense of Rights, confirms the existence of dozens of official and unofficial prisons in Aden. In her speech at the opening of the session, Huda expressed her regret over the security dealings in Aden, which does not deal legally with some of the procedures full of failure and also some violations such as arrests and raids, according to her words. And she stresses that there are organizations that have stopped working in this area as a result of pressures and threats. Huda talks about the pain of these illegal arrests and enforced disappearances in liberated areas where official state institutions exist, where human rights institutions, the public prosecution and the judiciary are present, criticizing for the presence of security bodies that are unable to carry out their responsibility represented in declare and disclose the fate of some of the disappeared. Finally, she demanded the security authorities and official institutions to reveal the fate of the hidden and to refer detainees to the judiciary and investigate their cases.

 

And one of the mothers of the hidden persons talk about her failed attempts to reach her son, saying she found a person belonging to one of the security authorities where he revealed the whereabouts of her son and promised her to deliver to him, but she was surprised days later that this person has been assassinated before being guided her to the place of her hidden son. This woman is following her speech with pain and sorrow, saying that the President of the Republic and the Aden Security Department are the responsible for what is being inflicted on her son.

 

The hearing of the mothers, wives and children of the disappeared about their suffering continues as a result of the absence of the detainees and the forcibly disappeared, the difficulties they face while searching for them, and living away from them. For her part, Um al-Bara' says "My son is a university fourth-year student and he has been hidden before his graduation ceremony and killed the joy we were all waiting for at his graduation ceremony. As mothers, we die a thousand times a day. No one can feel what we are suffering except those who have suffered this torment. We have resorted to all sides to look for our children, but unfortunately we did not get any answer from anyone."

 

The wife of the teacher and human rights activist, Zakaria Kassem, reviewed the suffering of her family in the search for her husband and the manner of his illegal detention by the Aden security department on 27 January last year and he has been then forcibly hidden. And that the wife and family of Zakaria did not know anything about him until this moment only information circulated by some people that he died under torture.

 

For her part, the representative of the Association of Abductee's Mothers in Aden, Randa Fahd, thanked the organizers of the session and all the supporters of the mothers of abductees and those who were forcibly hidden. She stressed the importance of such events in order to support the issues of the disappeared and the abductees and violations against them.

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