Abductee killed in UAE-backed militias prison in Aden

ADEN, Nov. 19 (YPA) -A young man was killed due to torture inside one of prisons run by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) occupation in the southern port city of Aden, local sources said on Thursday

According to the sources, Najib Ahmed Abadal, a resident of al-Ma’raiq neighborhood in Sheikh Osman district, was killed the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC)’s militia prison, local sources said.

Abadal, was tortured in a prison run by the commander of the so-called “8th sector of the security belt”, Karam al-Mashreqi.

Earlier this month, the the Abductees’ Mothers Association accused the UAE-backed “Southern Transitional” of abducting 37 of their children and placing them in detention.

“Thirty-seven abductees have been held in the prisons of the Emirati-backed militias since 2016, and their families have known nothing about them for five years,” the rights group said in a statement issued in front of the Arab Coalition headquarters in the City of al- Burayqah in Aden.

The STC militias have been controlling  the city Aden since August 2019, following violent clashes that ended with the expulsion of Hadi’s government and its military protection brigades from the city.

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