Pro-UAE officer dismissed after exposing violations inside al-Khokha prison

TAIZ, June 03 (YPA) – An officer belonging to the UAE-funded “Tariq Afash” forces was fired after he had exposed the killing of a citizen inside a prison in the town of al-Khokha, western Yemen.

Abdullah Al-Ajam, one of activists and who holds the rank of first lieutenant, reported in a post that he was dismissed from the so-called “First Brigade Zaranig” because of his publications about torture and inhumane treatment that abductees d and detainees are subjected to inside the notorious “Abu Musa Al-Ashari” prison in Yemeni town of al-Khokha area.

He attributed the reason for his dismissal to the discovery of the murder of one of the kidnapped, named Ali Shujai, inside the prison at the end of last March, who was kidnapped from his farm in the village of Al-Wa’ra in al-Khokha, confirming that Shujai’s body is still being held by Tariq Afash’s forces.

Activists from the Tihama people launched a sweeping attack on “Tariq Afash, nephew of the former president Ali Abdullah Saleh,” describing his measures as regionalism against the people of Tihama.

Abdel Majeed Zabah, a writer and journalist, described in a post on “X” the presence of Tariq Afash in the Tihama coast as a cancer among the Tihama sons.

He pointed out that “Tariq and Ammar Afash” launched threats to terrorize the oppressed people of Tihama, threatening to expose more violations against the people of Tihama in “Afash” prisons.