Hodeidah receives 80 fishermen after release from Eritrea detention

HODEIDAH, Jan. 21 (YPA) – The head of the General Authority for Fisheries in the Red Sea, Engineer Hashim Al-Da’ani said that 80 fishermen from Hodeidah province were being held in Eritrea have been released today.

In a statement to “Al-Thawra Net” that 37 fishermen arrived at the fish landing center in the Directorate of Al-Salif in a single boat out of a total of five boats on board, four of which were confiscated with its contents, while the other 43 fishermen were delivered successively to the Island of Kabret and they will be brought  by boats belonging a group of fishermen.

The fishermen, who were detained for three days, were arrested from inside Yemeni territorial waters and taken to an Emirati boat on The Island of Hermel for interrogation, he said.

Al-Da’ani condemned the Saudi-Emirati aggression against fishermen on the Yemeni coast, as well as the the attacks and the prevention of fishing.

He stressed that the aggression’s insistence on preventing fishermen from practicing their profession and earning their day’s livelihood is part of the sordid plans of the invaders carrying out to kneel and subjugate the Yemeni people.

He called on international organisations to assume their legal and moral responsibility to stop the crimes of aggression and violations against the Yemeni people and their arbitrary practices against fishermen on all Yemeni coasts.

E.M