Detainees’ mothers demand disclosure of fate of those forcibly disappeared in UAE jails in Aden

ADEN, Nov. 7 (YPA) – The Association of Mothers of Abductees in Aden city, southern Yemen on Wednesday demand to reveal the fate of their sons and release them, considering their abduction as a common denominator.

The Association of Mothers of Abductees in Aden province expressed its disappointment and regret that “the case of the abductees and forcibly disappeared from the Riyadh agreement has been absent”.

“We were shocked to sign the Riyadh agreement without mentioning the case of the abductees and enforced disappearances in UAE prisons,” the association said in a statement.

“While our sons detained in Bir Ahmed prison in Aden province are on hunger strike for the second time in a month, demanding that the Public Prosecutor to free those who have been ordered to be released, and to provide health care to detainees with mental disorder.

The association concluded their statement by renewing their demand to “reveal the fate of the forcibly disappeared as a first step in the next phase, and release all detainees and abductees, and to compensate them for the damage they suffered as a result of their arrest and torture”.

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