Saudi authorities detain Yemeni child recruited in coalition ranks

SANAA, Nov. 20 (YPA) – Family of a Yemeni minor child recruited into the ranks of the Saudi-led coalition forces has appealed to the Saudi authorities to release their son detained in Saudi prisons because he was a minor who was deceived.

Activists on social media have circulated documents showing that the Islah Party militia recruited a minor child from Taiz province, while Saudi Arabia arrested him for unknown reasons.

Activists also published an appeal by the family of the child, Tawheeb Ali Muhammad Othman (14 years old), from Al-Ma’afer District of Taiz province, to the Saudi authorities to release their son detained in Saudi prisons.

Aya Al-Samie, a human rights activist, said in a post on “Facebook” that the child Tawheeb was misled by the brokers and dealers of war, and was lured to the Kingdom’s borders to be recruited into the ranks of the coalition, without his family’s knowledge of that.

Al-Samie added that the conscript child is still “sitting until now in one of the kingdom’s prisons, and his family did not know anything about him,” noting that Tawheeb’s family appealed in a number of cables to quickly release their son, but to no avail.

YPA