Acting Minister of Human Rights calls ICRC to follow up prisoners’ affairs

SANAA, Oct. 19 (YPA) –Acting Minister of Human Rights, Ali Hussein Al-Dailami, on Tuesday called on the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to follow up the affairs of prisoners in prisons of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and the occupied Yemeni provinces of Marib, Aden and Hadramout.

Al-Dhilami discussed, during his meeting in Sanaa with head of ICRC’s delegation in Yemen, Katrina Ritz, the violations committed by Saudi-led coalition against prisoners and detainees and the failure to abide by international covenants and laws.

He reviewed the humanitarian issues related to the prisoners of the army and the popular committees, and the detained citizens in secret prisons and detention centers established by the coalition countries and mercenaries.

Al-Dailami touched on the case of the prisoner Matari Yahya Al-Manbahi, who is jailed in Saudi Khamis Mushait prison and was sentenced to death by the Saudi authorities. He called on the ICRC to take quick and urgent actions to stop the ruling, which violates the provisions and rules of international humanitarian law, especially the Third Geneva Convention on the Protection of Prisoners.

The Acting Minister of Human Rights briefed the ICRC’s head of delegation on the suffering of the traveling citizens and their detention in prisons of the coalition militia, and the crimes and torture they are subjected to, which led to the death of some of them.

For her part, Ritz referred to the ICRC’s interest in protecting prisoners and detainees in all prisons, and that the prisoner Matari Al-Manabi’s case is on the Committee’s agenda and that it is working with the United Nations to follow up it.

She also confirmed the keenness to strengthen partnership with the Ministry of Human Rights in projects and programs for the protection of human rights.

YPA