Detainees in UAE-run prison in Aden go on hunger strike

ADEN, Dec. 5 (YPA) – Detainees at UAE-run Bir-Ahmed prison in the port city of Aden, southern Yemen, on Wednesday went on a hunger strike for the fourth time within weeks.

The detainees’ strike came as a protest against being held, despite the issuance of their release orders by the Prosecutor’s Office in Aden, according to a statement issued by Abductees Mothers Association during a protest of the detainees’ relatives in front of home of the interior minister in the exiled Hadi’s government in Aden.

The statement said that the UAE-backed militias’ commander in Aden, Abu Yamamah, ordered the manager of Bir-Ahmed prison to hand him a number of detainees whose fate was revealed without any legal justification.

According to the statement, the UAE militias in a prison of Mukalla city in Hadramout province on Tuesday night opened fire at the detainees during a peaceful sit-in to demand release or fair trial, which led to the injuring of several.

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