Rights Radar calls for the release of 1000 civilian abductees in Houthi prisons
English - Sunday 25 April 2021 الساعة 11:18 am
Aden, NewsYemen:
On Saturday, Rights Radar for Human Rights called on the parties to the armed conflict in Yemen to quickly release all kidnapped, prisoners and insolvent prisoners to spare them the dangers of the Corona epidemic following its alarming and more deadly return than before.
The organization, based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, called on all parties in Yemen to ensure the life and safety of all prisoners, detainees and abductees in all prisons, detention centers and overcrowded detention sites, in all governorates of the country.
A statement by the organization said that the prisons do not have the minimum health and preventive measures to prevent prisoners from contracting the emerging corona virus (Covid 19).
It expressed her concern about the possibility that the epidemic will affect large numbers of prisoners, who may kill their lives in full view of everyone, especially since they are deprived of the most basic rights to health care and others.
Rights Radar confirmed that prisons and detention centers in Yemen are overcrowded with thousands of prisoners, kidnappers, and civilian detainees in addition to prisoners of war, as the Houthi group is holding in its detention more than a thousand civilians of the kidnapped and forcibly disappeared, distributed into more than 203 prisons, 78 of which are located in the headquarters of the security and police services authorities, which the group controlled in the capital, Sanaa, in addition to 125 detainees in other areas under its military control.
The organization stated that the number of those who were killed as a result of torture in detention facilities amounted to 169 victims, while more than 55 others lost their lives in the prisons of the Houthi armed group as a result of health negligence after most of them were subjected to systematic torture sessions and some were left to face their inevitable fate inside prisons without any humanitarian intervention to save their lives. They were left to face slow death due to health complications.
Rights Radar called on all parties to take into account the humanitarian aspect and to deal with moral responsibility with what threatens the lives of prisoners and detainees and to release as many of them as possible, especially those with chronic diseases and the elderly, while ensuring the provision of the necessary healthy conditions for the safety of the rest of the prisoners, especially in the most crowded prisons that lack safety standards. Health.
It called on the international community to move urgently to pressure the parties to the conflict in Yemen to release all detainees, especially political detainees, and to initiate urgent humanitarian initiatives in this regard before it is too late.
