UAE-backed militias prevent citizens of northern provinces from entering Aden

ABYAN, Feb. 2 (YPA) – The (SAM) Organization for Rights and Freedom on Saturday condemned the detaining of citizens from the northern provinces at a security post belonging to the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council militias  at the entrance to the city of Zinjibar, the capital of the occupied Province of Abyan.

The human rights organization Sam explained that a security post belonging to the so-called “Third Brigade support ” was stationed at the entrance to Zinjibar, has  prevented a number of buses and mass transport, carrying citizens, women, children and patients from the northern provinces, from entering the city and travelling to the occupied city of Aden.

It said that members of the security belt militias prevented more than 200 citizens, including 35 who were on a mass transit bus, 3 patients, women and children from the northern provinces.

The organization also stressed the need to respect citizens’ right of movement, considering this decision irrational and targeting innocent citizens.

On Friday, members of the so-called security belt blocked the road in Sheikh Salem area of Abyan province, preventing a number of buses carrying citizens from the northern provinces from passing through.

According to local sources, the buses carrying a number of members of Taiz, Ibb and Sanaa provinces from passing because their salaries had been cut off and not paid for months, despite repeated promises by the concerned authorities to hand them over.

The military and security institutions of the so-called Legitimacy suffer from continued salary cuts, although many of the vital, money-generating facilities are under the control of the Saudi-backed government, but those resources have been harnessed in favor of corrupt officials in Hadi’s government.

E.M