Protest vigil condemns assaults on detainees in Aden’s Bir Ahmed prison

ADEN, April 18 (YPA) – The Association of Mothers of Abductees in Aden city, southern Yemen, on Thursday held a protest vigil in front of house of interior minister in Hadi’s government to denounce assaults on detainees at Bir Ahmed prison run by UAE-backed militias.

At the vigil, which coincides with “the Day of Abductee, April 18, dozens of the detainees’ relatives called on the United Nations and the concerned authorities to work to speed the release of the detainees and reveal the fate of those who were forcibly disappeared.

The participants expressed their concern about the information reporting that military crews stormed on Monday the prison and assaulted on the prisoners with hands and sticks, and that the prison administration transferred a group of the detainees, including those injured in the assault, to solitary cells.

In the vigil’s statement, the Association held Hadi’s government and Saudi/UAE-led aggression coalition countries responsible for the continuing violations against detainees.

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