Special Report: UAE-run new secret prisons discovered in new year of Aden
US intelligence officers torture Yemeni detainees
SANAA – New secret prisons run by United Arab Emirates have been discovered in Yemen’s southern port city of Aden in this new year. The prisons are full of Yemeni political prisoners and human rights activists, who were tortured and interrogated by US intelligence officers.
SANAA – New secret prisons run by United Arab Emirates have been discovered in Yemen’s southern port city of Aden in this new year. The prisons are full of Yemeni political prisoners and human rights activists, who were tortured and interrogated by US intelligence officers.
The detainees are being subjected to torture and humiliation.
Yemen Press Agency’s reporter investigates into the case, citing local military officials in Aden as saying “the new secret prisons are similar to those old secret prisons reported by international media outlets last year.”
One official said “hundreds of residents from the southern provinces of Lahj, Aden and Abyan have been forcibly arrested and some of them were kidnapped over last few months, but the information indicate that more than 20 citizens were imprisoned in the UAE-run secret prisons in Aden province.”
“A number of detainees had died under brutal torture in the detention centers,” said the official who asked not to be named.
Eyewitnesses in the city of Aden said that in early October, 2017, the occupying UAE forces established a new prison in a land of 2,500 square meter in Bir Ahmad area in Aden, and jailed more than 400 residents, most of detainees were held captive on the background of their popular protests against occupying UAE repressive policies in the city.
“The occupying UAE authorities are using American intelligence officers in the secret prisons to conduct psychological and physical torture during interrogations with more than 150 prisoners in the old secret prisons in Bir Ahmed,” one of the witnesses said.
Local media revealed the worsening conditions of the secret jails, particularly the deteriorating health conditions of many detainees.
The UAE forces, which invaded the country’s south more than two years ago, have been ignoring human rights laws and refused to put the detainees on fair trial. Officials in Aden said some detainees were transferred to an Eritrea-based UAE military base for interrogation.