International organization calls on UAE to release journalist detained in its prisons in Aden

ADEN, Feb. 13 (YPA) – Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has revealed details about detention of Adel Al-Hasani, a freelance journalist, who has been arrested and forcibly detained by the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) militias in the Yemen’s city of Aden.

The RSF called for the immediate release of Adel Al-Hasani, working for foreign media outlets, who has been held arbitrarily for nearly five months .

According to the RSF, no one know where he was until he managed to call his wife a week later. Another month went by before she and his lawyer were finally able to visit him in prison and confirm that he was in reasonably good health.

He works as a fixer by foreign media such as the BBC, CNN and France 24.

On the eve of his arrest, Al-Hasani received a call from an Emirati intelligence officer who told him to stop working as a fixer.

For its part, Skyline International called on the STC and the UAE government to release Al-Hasani.

It also called on all the international community, all of its components to take action to stop repeated violations against civilians and activists by the STC and the UAE.

Previous international reports have recommended that the international community to put pressure on  the UAE to close its secret prisons in southern Yemen.

E.M