Southern activists attack “Public Prosecutor” in Aden
ADEN, Aug. 08 (YPA) – The “Criminal Prosecution” in the city of Aden, southern Yemen, boycotted on Wednesday the sessions of some prisoners in the notorious Bir Ahmed prison, amid an attack launched by human rights activists on the performance of the “Public Prosecutor” there.
Human rights sources in the city attributed the prosecution’s boycott of the sessions yesterday to the security chaos taking place in Aden, coinciding with the continued kidnapping of lawyer Sami Yassin despite the issuance of decisions to release him.
The sources explained that the judicial officials of the government loyal to the Saudi-led coalition reside outside Yemen due to the security chaos of the factions affiliated with the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC), which were not included in the government’s so-called “Ministry of Interior.”
On the other hand, human rights activists from the south called on what they called the free tribal sheikhs to intervene immediately to dissolve the so-called “judiciary” in Aden as a result of the absence of justice and state authorities over the past years.
They accused the Public Prosecutor, Qaher Mustafa, of neglecting the cases of thousands of kidnapped and forcibly disappeared people in secret prisons and detention centers and of contradictory performance regarding the cases of kidnapping and forced disappearance.
Activists expressed their fears of the continued increase in cases of kidnapping and forced disappearance against everyone who criticizes the crimes of the Transitional Council in light of the negligence of the Public Prosecutor, while continuing to demand the disclosure of Ali Ashal, who was kidnapped since last June, and the rest of those kidnapped and forcibly disappeared in the prisons of the STC.
YPA