Sanaa holds coalition responsible for torturing detainees in Marib
SANAA, Aug 15 (YPA) – Ministry of Human Rights of Sanaa government held on Tuesday the coalition-backed armed factions in Marib city the responsible for torturing detainees.
The ministry said in a news statement that it had received a report from the family of citizen Yassin Mohammed Mohammed al-Mutawakil, who was arrested while traveling to the city of Marib to buy a car in early May 2021.
The statement affirmed that the armed factions in Marib refused to release Yassin al-Mutawakel, along with hundreds of abductees, using various types of psychological and physical torture against them.
It stated that the so-called Political Security prison administration run by Islah Party has put handcuffs on the abductees who demand treatment, depriving them of exposure to the sun, which caused the spread of skin diseases.
The statement indicated that hundreds of prisoners, most of them academics, journalists, students, expatriates and travellers for treatment inside the Political Security-run prisons were kidnapped from the roads, and they suffer from health and psychological conditions as a result of torture.
The Ministry’s statement called on the United Nations, all international humanitarian organizations, and the tribes of Yemen, to pressure the coalition factions in Marib to release the abductees who are subjected to torture.
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