YEMEN Press Agency

Marib: Three displaced families abducted from Al-Jubah district

MARIB, Sept 12 (YPA) – A human rights source said that the Islah militants kidnapped displaced families from the Abu Saad family from Al-Jubah district in Marib province.

“The Islah party militants raided a camp for displaced people in Wadi Obeida about two months ago and arrested Hussein Ahmed Aylouq Abu Saad and his sons, Ali Abdullah Saleh Abu Saad, his daughter and nephew Mohammed Saleh Abu Saad,” the source told  Yemen news agency (Saba).

The source pointed out that the Islah militia hiding the detainees from their families and prevented their visit.

The detainees were subjected to psychological and physical torture and their fate remains unknown until now.

He reported that the mercenary militia refuses to refer the file of the abductees to the prosecution and the judiciary, after accusing them of communicating with the Salafi leader Abdul Razzaq al-Baqma before his assassination.

The source called on human rights and humanitarian organizations to act urgently and put pressure on the Islah militia to reveal the fate of the abductees and allow their families to visit them and release them.

E.M