Mothers demand release of their sons in UAE secret prisons in Aden

ADEN, Oct. 15 (YPA) – The port city of Aden, southern Yemen, witnessed on Thursday a protest vigil by mothers of the kidnapped and forcibly disappeared persons in the UAE’s secret prisons in Aden.

The Detainees’ Mothers Association called, during the vigil, for ending the arrest of 41 detainees in ‘Bir Ahmed’ prison, and to disclose the fate of 37 citizens have been forcibly disappeared for more than four years without legal justification.

In a statement, issued during the vigil, the Association called on the prosecution to immediately release every person whose freedom was unlawfully restricted, or placed in pretrial detention for a period more than what is permitted by law.

The statement held the concerned authorities responsible for the safety of the forcibly disappeared and arbitrarily detained people, calling on international and local human rights organizations to pressure “Hadi’s government” to release the detainees and reveal the fate of the forcibly disappeared.

It is noteworthy that since Aden fell under the control of Saudi-Emirati coalition, dozens of citizens have been subjected to arrests, abductions and physical torture without any legal justification.

YPA