Bir Ahmed jail’s  prisoners are entering hunger strike for 3rd  day in row

ADEN, Sep. 11 (YPA) – The prisoners of Bir Ahmed jail, supervised by UAE forces, announced that they were entering a hunger strike to protest the continued ill-treatment and torture from the interrogators and soldiers of the United Arab Emirates and their militiamen .

Local sources said, the detainees in the prison of Bir Ahmed in Aden continue their hunger strike for the third day to take over in protest against the abuse and the refusal of the UAE supervisor to release them despite the approval of the Attorney General to release them.

The sources pointed out that this strike comes after the suicide of one of the detainees, who ended his life by overdose medication because of the refusal of the UAE supervisor to release him after the directives of the Attorney General in the authority of exiled  Hadi in Aden, pointing to the failure of three suicide attempts, after this case, for the same reasons.

The detainees demanded that to be rescued quickly and appealed to the humanitarian organizations to visit them, provide psychological security to them, and pressure the concerned authorities to release them.

It is noteworthy that UAE forces exercise physical, psychological and sexual torture of detainees in the prisons of areas under its control, according to international reports.

Sameera Hassn