Journalist freed from Houthi militia prisons: Houthi prisoners use construction workers and international organizations support him without improving their conditions
English - Sunday 20 December 2020 الساعة 02:34 pm
Sanaa, NewsYemen:
Haitham Al-Shehab, editor-in-chief from the prisons of the Houthi militia, criticized what he said was the "negative role of the Red Cross and other international organizations" in following up on the issues of the kidnapped and caring for them.
Al-Shehab said, in a post on his Facebook page, that Al-Houthi “took advantage of prisoners who are tired of staying in closed cells in the Central Security Prison in Sana’a, so he took them out for work, construction, welding, ringing, telelief, electricity and plumbing.” and that "the organizations did not provide any services to the prisoners and the kidnapped in the cells of the Houthis."
Al-Shehab criticizes the organizations ’failure to use their support for the Houthi as pressure to improve the conditions of prisoners“ despite receiving exorbitant funds. ”He said:“ The organizations provided al-Houthi with detergents, door locks, water trains, blankets, treatments, clothes, and brooms.
All of this goes either to a war effort for its militia, such as clothes and treatments, or they are sold in the markets such as blankets and detergents, while brooms are used in beating and violence on the bodies of the oppressed prisoners.
According to Al-Shehabi, international organizations, including the International Red Cross, have funded "the construction of new prisons, including three floors containing more than sixty cells in the Central Security Prison in Sanaa, in one cell from 70 to 130 prisoners."
