Sanaa reveals 50,000 Yemenis imprisoned inside Saudi prisons
SANAA, June 05 (YPA) – Nearly 50,000 Yemenis have been jailed inside the Saudi prisons without any trials or legal procedures condemning them or proving their legal violation of the Saudi system.
This came during a press conference was held in Sanaa by Minister of Human Rights, Ali Al-Dailami, to reveal the crimes and violations that Yemeni expatriates in Saudi Arabia are getting continuously exposed to and have escalated in recent years since the start of the war on Yemen.
“The ministry has verified that the Saudi regime has detained between 300 and 500 expatriate women in Al-Kharj prison,” Al-Dailami said. “Sanaa has received information about 50 expatriates who have been sentenced to prison terms for decades.”
He stressed that the Saudi regime issued summary judgments that missed all the basics of litigation, noting that this is a violation of their rights to a fair trial, freedom, safety and personal security.
Al-Dailami called on the Security Council to form an independent and non-politicized committee to visit Saudi prisons, fact-finding, and seriously probe into the crimes of the Saudi regime and all violations against Yemenis and others.
For his part, Deputy Minister of Expatriate Affairs in Sanaa, Zayed Al-Riyami, explained that during the war on Yemen, the Saudi regime began deporting expatriates, whose number have reached 500,000 since the beginning of 2015.
He pointed out that the violations of the Saudi regime against expatriates carried out from the early 1990s when they began to impose the sponsorship system, which is a bondage system.
About 89 Yemeni expatriates have been executed in Saudi Arabia since 2014, he explained, indicating that over 300 female Yemeni expatriate and prisoners in Saudi prisons are subjected to torture.
It is indicated that local, Arab and international human rights and humanitarian organizations constantly call for an international investigation into the crimes of the Saudi regime against Yemenis and other Arab and Asian nationalities, in additional to the Saudi citizens, which have not been heard in light of the shameful silence of the United Nations.
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